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1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever.
This gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed without leaving a trace and put it in the hands of Bogdan Stashinsky. It is a tale of exploding parcels, fake identities, forbidden love and a man who knew the truth about the USSR’s most classified programme. By the time Stashinsky had his day in court, the whole world was watching.
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Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute. The award-winning author of many books, including The Last Empire and The Gates of Europe, Serhii lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
AudioFile Earphones Award winner Clive Chafer is a professional actor, director, and producer, as well as a theater instructor. He is also the founder of TheatreFIRST, the San Francisco Bay Area's only internationally oriented theater.
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"A thrilling, well-researched tale of espionage that has all the spycraft hallmarks of a blockbuster movie." ---Kirkus
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