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The Lost Spy by Andrew Meier – Review
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier
No TagON THE night of Feb. 20, 1939, three Soviet secret policemen knocked on a door at the Hotel Moskva in the Russian capital, asked to see the (fake) passport of its occupant, gave him a few minutes to gather some belongings and whisked him away to the notorious Lubyanka prison. Charged with espionage, he was questioned for almost a year before being sentenced to eight years in Norilsk, a mining center hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle and one of the bleakest islands in the Gulag Archipelago.
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City of Dreams & Nightmare by Ian Whates – Review
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Ice Cold by Andrea Maria Schenkel – Review
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Fall of Thanes by Brian Ruckley – Review
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The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith – Review
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