In a smooth BBC accent, narrator Derek Perkins delivers this captivating story of Russian espionage. Focusing on the past four decades, the audiobook shows how Russian spying on the West went from the long game of planting illegals with fake identities, in the style of “The Americans” TV show, to the short game of recruiting Russian emigrés who used their real names, like the "Russian Honeypot," Anna Chapman. We learn that when ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin stepped into the Russian power void, the spy tactics became less Le Carré and more brutal—witness the radioactive poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Perkins enlivens the pursuit of spies by the FBI with many stories of double crosses and double agents, and explains covert terminology; for example, "dry cleaning"—a circuitous route taken to throw off a tail. The result is a nonfiction audiobook that reads like fiction. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia's espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present
Spies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but sometimes the best spy stories happen in real life. Russians Among Us tells the full story of Putin's escalating espionage campaign in the West, the Russian `deep cover' spies who penetrated the US and the years-long FBI hunt to capture them. This book also details the recruitment, running, and escape of one of the most important spies of modern times, a man who worked inside the heart of Russian intelligence. In this thrilling account Corera tracks not only the history, but the astonishing evolution of Russian espionage, including the use of `cyber illegals' who continue to manipulate us today and pose a significant threat to the 2020 election.
Like a scene from the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper agents were arrested. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and ten people, including Anna Chapman, were swapped for four people held in Russia. At the time it was seen simply as a throwback to the Cold War. But that would prove to be a costly mistake. It was a sign that the Russian threat had never gone away and more importantly, it was shifting into a much more disruptive new phase. Today, the danger is clearer than ever following the poisoning in the UK of one of the spies who was swapped, Sergei Skripal, and the growing evidence of Russian interference in American life.
Russians Among Us describes for the first time the story of deep cover spies in America and the FBI agents who tracked them. In intimate and riveting detail, it reveals new information about today's spies-as well as those trying to catch them and those trying to kill them.
With intrigue that rivals the best le Carre novels, Russians Among Us tells the urgent story of Russia's espionage efforts against the United States and the West from the end of the Cold War to the present
Spies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but sometimes the best spy stories happen in real life. Russians Among Us tells the full story of Putin's escalating espionage campaign in the West, the Russian `deep cover' spies who penetrated the US and the years-long FBI hunt to capture them. This book also details the recruitment, running, and escape of one of the most important spies of modern times, a man who worked inside the heart of Russian intelligence. In this thrilling account Corera tracks not only the history, but the astonishing evolution of Russian espionage, including the use of `cyber illegals' who continue to manipulate us today and pose a significant threat to the 2020 election.
Like a scene from the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper agents were arrested. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and ten people, including Anna Chapman, were swapped for four people held in Russia. At the time it was seen simply as a throwback to the Cold War. But that would prove to be a costly mistake. It was a sign that the Russian threat had never gone away and more importantly, it was shifting into a much more disruptive new phase. Today, the danger is clearer than ever following the poisoning in the UK of one of the spies who was swapped, Sergei Skripal, and the growing evidence of Russian interference in American life.
Russians Among Us describes for the first time the story of deep cover spies in America and the FBI agents who tracked them. In intimate and riveting detail, it reveals new information about today's spies-as well as those trying to catch them and those trying to kill them.
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies
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| BN ID: | 2940173700506 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 02/18/2020 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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