num_pages: 400
description: During WWII a young Russian spy with divided loyalties under deep cover in Nazi Germany uncovers an assassination plot that could change the course of historyAleksi Ivanovich Smirnov an orphan and a thief has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936 at the age of 16 Aleksi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There in the notorious headquarters of the secret police he is given a choice: be trained and inserted as a spy into Nazi Germany under the identity of his best friend the long lost nephew of a high ranking Nazi official or disappear forever in the basement of the Lubyanka. For Aleksi its no choice at all. Over the course of the next seven years Aleksi has to live his role that of the devoted nephew of a high Nazi official and ultimately works for the legendary German spymaster Wilhelm Canaris as an intelligence agent in the Abwehr. All the while acting as a double agentreporting back to the NKVD and avoiding detection by the Gestapo. Trapped between the implacable forces of two of the most notorious dictatorships in history and truly loyal to no one but himself Aleksis goal remains the samesurvival. In 1943 Aleksi is chosen by the Gestapo to spearhead one of the most desperate operations of the warto infiltrate the site of the upcoming Tehran conference between Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin and set them up to be assassinated. For Aleksi its the moment of truth; for the rest of the world the future is at stake.
language: English
title: A Single Spy
publisher: Minotaur Books