So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of espionage. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. 'The best true spy story I have ever read' - John le CarreĪ thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018
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