The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's most acclaimed historians.
Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Agent Sonya, The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times, and has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He regularly presents BBC series based on his acclaimed books.
The best true spy story I have ever read
*John le Carré on 'The Spy and the Traitor'*
Thrilling...Macintyre will have you hooked to her life's every
twist and turn
*Times/Sunday Times Books of the Year*
Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else. He has
a remarkable ability to construct a narrative that is as taut and
urgent as it is carefully nuanced.
*Evening Standard*
Macintyre has found a real-life heroine worthy of his gifts as John
le Carré's nonfiction counterpart
*New York Times*
This book is classic Ben Macintyre...quirky human details enliven
every page... it is Macintyre's own vivid retelling of her perilous
professional, personal and political life that make Agent Sonya
such an accessible spy story.
*Spectator*
He has the unerring gift of uncovering those astonishing truths
that make even the best novelists of espionage seem both earthbound
and artificial in comparison
*Daily Telegraph*
His best book yet
*The Times*
Another year, another blockbuster real-life spy tome... Think John
le Carré at his early best - but fact not fiction
*Daily Express*
He...spins gloriously through one of the most extraordinary private
lives of the 20th century
*Daily Mail, Book of the Week*
In Agent Sonya, Macintyre has pulled off his most remarkable trick:
he leaves us admiring, and even cheering for, the woman at the
heart of his story, someone who not only wanted to destroy our
democracy but helped Russia get a nuclear bomb. She is the
strongest character of all in Macintyre's bestselling series of
wartime tales... I raced through the pages to keep up with the
plot
*Evening Standard*
This impeccably researched account of her double life spans
continents and is brilliantly compelling
*Sunday Mirror*
Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet
driven individual who risked everything (including her children)
for the cause
*Sunday Times*
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