The story of how one man—a librarian for the KGB—became a traitor to the intelligence agency, stealing the most prized Soviet-era archives and smuggling them to the West.
More than most Cold War thrillers, this true story offers genuine suspense—and genuine insight into Mitrokhin’s complex motivations ... His experience with the material lends weight to a thoroughly engrossing tale.
For the most part, Corera routinely impresses. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The Spy in the Archive manages to be, by turns, illuminating and riveting.
