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Agent Sonya - by Ben Macintyre (Hardcover)

 Agent Sonya - by  Ben Macintyre (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The ... true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The "master storyteller" (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>) behind the <i>New York Times </i>bestseller <i>The Spy and the Traitor</i> uncovers the true story behind the Cold War's most intrepid female spy. <p/>"[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account."--<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>Foreign Affairs </i>- <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>- <i>Library Journal</i></b> <p/>In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. <p/>They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. <p/>This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named "Sonya." Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI--and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century--between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy--and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. <p/>With unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Ben] Macintyre at once exalts and subverts the myths of spy craft."<b>--<i>The New Yorker</i></b> <p/>"Macintyre is fastidious about tradecraft details. . . . [He] has become the preeminent popular chronicler of British intelligence history because he understands the essence of the business."<b>--David Ignatius, <i>The Washington Post </i><br></b><br>"Macintyre writes with novelistic flair."<b>--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br></b><br>"Macintyre is a superb writer, with an eye for the telling detail as fine as any novelist's."<b>--<i>The Dallas Morning News</i><br></b><br>"Macintyre is one of the most gifted espionage writers around."<b>--Annie Jacobsen, author of <i>Area 51 </i>and <i>Operation Paperclip</i><br></b><br>"Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller."<b>--John Banville, <i>The Guardian</i> (UK)<br></b><br>"With Macintyre in charge, you're virtually guaranteed a history book that reads like a spy novel."<b>--<i>Richmond Times-Dispatch</i><br></b><br>"A scrupulous and insightful writer--a master historian."<b>--Alan Furst, author of <i>Mission to Paris</i><br></b><br>"Macintyre is a master at leading the reader down some very tortuous paths while ensuring they never lose their bearings."<b>--<i>Evening Standard</i> (UK)<br></b><br>"Macintyre . . . has that enviable gift, the inability to write a dull sentence."<b>--<i>The Spectator</i> (UK)</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ben Macintyre</b> is a writer-at-large for <i>The Times </i>(U.K.) and the bestselling author of <i>The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, </i> and <i>Rogue Heroes</i>, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.

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