Next Stop Execution - The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky

U.K.: MacMillan. Good in Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333620860 . "Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. For eleven years, from 1874 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer, first in Copenhagen, then in London. He gave Western security organizations such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the whole system of Soviet Government that he has been credited with doing more than any other individual in the West to accelerate the collapse of Communism. Here for the first time his extraordinary, meticulously planned escape from Russia is described. Gordievsky's story introduces the reader to the fantastical world of the Soviet Embassy, tells of the British MPs and trade unionists who helped and took money from the KGB, and reveals at last what the author told Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders which made him of such value to the West. Gordievsky's autobiography gives a gripping account of life as a secret agent. It also paints the most graphic picture yet of the paranoia and incompetence, intrigues and sheer nastiness of the all-encompassing and sometimes ridiculous KGB." - dust jacket. A must read for those who were thrilled by Ben MacIntyre's 'The Spy and the Traitor'. [10],404 pp. Index. Eight pages of excellent black and white photographic plates. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this truly incredible life story and epic escape from the Soviet Union.; 8vo .