Since its release in June 2019, this espionage thriller, with large doses not only of realism but of reality, is among the best sellers of its genre. You can check it HERE. And it is that the English historian and columnist Ben macintyre he is a specialist in the most unusual biographies about that kind of personages who, by ho by b, have had a relevant role in different historical events, only in an underground way.
It is true that the movements in the shadows that end up transforming our social or political reality were and are an unapproachable constant at first glance.
Guys like Oleg Gordievski, on whom this story is centered, are those qualified chroniclers who know in depth aspects for which the story gives an official treatment, forgetting that fundamental intrahistory that makes the gears continue to facilitate the mechanism to work.
And it is around these characters where fiction that surpasses reality is best accomplished.
Because ... what more would I like John LeCarre He had to come across Oleg's biography to write one of his Cold War novels.
But of course, these types of stories end up reaching other types of writers with contacts even in hell itself. So that they are made known at the right time, perhaps when everything that can be prosecuted is prescribed, in the worst case when any possibility of redress or revenge goes nowhere because there is no one left to address it.
Oleg Gordiesvski's case points to a peak of the Cold War, this peak being the greatest crisis we could have experienced. We are talking about a double spy who, officially practicing in the KGB, ended up being recruited by MI6. And in whose hands was the fate of the world.
All of us who are already an age remember strange events of the 80s. The Cold War was still a threat that lasted for too long and that the most pessimistic of the place pointed out that it would end badly sooner rather than later. The famous red button in the hands of the insane man on duty and all that ...
Oleg knew, from his high rank in the KGB, that the atomic threat loomed more strongly than ever over the Western world. It was the year 1985 and an apocalyptic plan passed from their hands to the British and American intelligence services ultimately.
That reality that surpasses fiction gives this espionage story a romantic cavity that makes the hair stand on end. In a world sustained in its icy peace, under the general ignorance of the nuclear threat pointed in the form of missiles, Oleg acted as his ethics dictated to ensure that the world did not end up overshadowed by a gigantic grayish mushroom whose expansive sling could end everything .
This is his adventure and this is the reality of what could come our way. That Oleg could act as an infiltrator in the intelligence services of the USSR served for the world to continue the day after as if nothing had happened, all ignorant that the end could have come between the sibylline shadows of a World War III that was never so close.
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