The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

ISBN-13: 9781786071767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str.

Serhii Plokhy

Opis

In the autumn of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he had singlehandedly tracked down and killed the enemies of the communist regime. His weapon was a specially designed secret: it killed without leaving any trace. The true story that inspired The Man with theGolden Gun by Ian Fleming

Recenzje

'Remarkable...moves nimbly from midnight shenanigans in Berlin to the bigger picture of superpowers arguing over captive nations.'

The Times

O autorze

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard and the director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he is the author of several books including The Last Empire , which won the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize in 2015. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.