Redwood

Ben Macintyre

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The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. The Soviets are planning to overthrow the Ayatollah's fledgling Islamist regime. If they do so, one response from America - unknown to the public - would be to use nuclear weapons. 'Redwood' is the story of how at the height of the Cold War, one mysterious double agent, whose intelligence reached the highest levels of British and American governments, cracked open the KGB, revealed the Kremlin's secret plot and prevented Armageddon.'Redwood' was the MI6 codename for this unsung, hitherto unknown hero of the Cold War, a highly-trained six-foot-four Russian intelligence officer who chose to expose the KGB's deepest secrets, compelled to swap sides by a shaming secret of his own. Facing exposure, with both the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and his own KGB colleagues closing in, he demanded that MI6 try to smuggle him out of Iran in a high-stakes escape pla


Author(s): Macintyre, Ben
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 10/09/2026
Pagination: 384 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Viking
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Classification: The Cold War|Biography: historical, political & military|True war & combat stories|Espionage & secret services
Dimensions: 242 x 164 x 41
Weight: 736
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241754801

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