The KGB Double Agent Who Stopped Armageddon with Ben McIntyre

Ben McIntyre — the best popular writer working on intelligence history — tells the story of Vladimir Kouzichkin, a KGB officer in revolutionary Iran who became a British asset (codenamed Agent Redwood) and exposed Soviet networks across the Middle East. The 1981 context is sharp: Washington feared a Soviet move on Iran, and Kouzichkin's intelligence reshaped Western understanding of Soviet capabilities in the region. McIntyre's trademark is making the personal motivations of spies as vivid as the operational detail, and Dan Snow gives him room to do that here.