Ben Macintyre "Agent Sonya" PDF

Do read Ben Macintyre’s Spy and Traitor. It is a must read for espionage genre cognoscenti and has even been lauded by none other than John le Carré as "the best true spy story I have ever read". John le Carré certainly knew a ton about writing high quality espionage thrillers and Ben deserved that accolade in this instance. However, as a spy in his own right David Cornwell was an extraordinarily long chalk behind Oleg Gordievsky. Mind you, as the son of a fraudster, a known associate of the infamous London gangsters the Kray Brothers, David Cornwell was not necessarily as good at spying as he might have thought when looking in the mirror. An intriguing brief News Article dated 31 October 2022 about all that (about Pemberton’s People in MI6 et al) is well worth reading in TheBurlingtonFiles website.