I was able to get a digital version of this from Coachwhip a while back. It is written by a man who was part of the spy network for Soviet Russia during WWII until he was arrested. After the war, he spent some time in Russia and decided he wanted to cut ties with the Centre.
The pace of this book was a bit tedious at times. I'm not sure what it was, but I had issues getting through sections of it. Other parts were fine, even highly interesting, but when he was explaining the way the network functioned, I was losing interest.
The part that interested me the most was the matter of fact way he approached his feelings of breaking ties with the Centre. He had initially believed in Communism, watched the way it worked in Russia, and decided he didn't want to contribute toward it anymore.
I'm on the fence with this one. I was interested in how things worked, but it wasn't really written in a way that kept my interest. I'm not blaming the author at all. It's just the way it struck me. Side note: I thought it was crazy that when there was too much information, and the spy wanted to simply hand it over to the Allies, he was told to burn it instead.
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