num_pages: 374
description: From the capture of Sidney Reilly the 'Ace of Spies' by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925 to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman the 'Redhead under the Bed' in 2010 Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America unveiling their clandestine missions and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs and disasters of Western intelligence in the Cold War providing the background to the new world of industrial and political espionage. To tell the story of post-Soviet espionage Lucas draws on exclusive interviews with Russia's top NATO spy Herman Simm and unveils the horrific treatment of a Moscow lawyer who dared to challenge the ruling criminal syndicate there. Once the threat from Moscow was international communism; now it comes from the siloviki Russia's ruthless 'men of power'.
language: English
title: Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing