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Praise for David E. Hoffman&rsquo;s The Billion Dollar Spy&ldquo;The Billion Dollar Spy&#160;is one of the best spy stories to come out of the Cold War and all the more riveting . . . for being true. It hits the sweet spot between page-turning thriller and solidly researched history (even the footnotes are informative) and then becomes something more, a shrewd character study of spies and the spies who run them, the mixed motives, the risks. . . . This is a terrific book.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;Washington Post&ldquo;A true-life tale so gripping at times it reads like spy fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times&ldquo;Engrossing. . . . Mr. Hoffman&rsquo;s book particularly shines in cinematic accounts of . . . anxious encounters.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times&ldquo;A rare look at the dangerous, intricately choreographed tradecraft behind old-school intelligence gathering. . . . What [Hoffman]&rsquo;s accomplished here isn&rsquo;t just a remarkable example of journalistic talent but also an ability to weave an absolutely gripping nonfiction narrative.&rdquo; &mdash;The Dallas Morning News &#160; &ldquo;This riveting drama. . . . packs valuable insights into the final decade of the cloak-and-dagger rivalry between the United States and the former Soviet Union. . . . A must-read for historians and buffs of that era, as well as aficionados of espionage.&rdquo; &mdash;The Christian Science Monitor&ldquo;Hoffman excels at conveying both the tradecraft and the human vulnerabilities involved in spying.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker&ldquo;Gripping and nerve-wracking. . . . Human tension hangs over&#160;every&#160;page of&#160;The Billion Dollar Spy&#160;like the smell of leaded gasoline. . . . [Hoffman] knows the intelligence world well and has expertly used recently declassified documents to tell this unsettling and suspenseful&#160;story. . . .&#160;The Billion Dollar Spy&#160;reads like&#160;the most taut and suspenseful parts of&#160;Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy&#160;or&#160;Smiley&rsquo;s People. It&rsquo;s worth the clenched jaw and upset stomach it creates.&rdquo; &mdash;USA Today &#160; &ldquo;Suspenseful. . . . Hoffman is a scrupulous, meticulous writer whose pages of footnotes and references attest to how carefully he sticks to his sources. . . . His book&rsquo;s value is in its true-life adventure story and the window it offers into a once-closed world.&rdquo; &mdash;The Columbus Dispatch &ldquo;Hoffman viscerally evokes the secret, ruthless Cold War battle between the American Central Intelligence Agency and the Soviet KGB in his true-life espionage thriller. . . . An exciting, revealing tale with a courageous, sympathetic protagonist.&rdquo; &mdash;Tampa Bay Times&ldquo;The fine first sentence of&#160;The Billion Dollar Spy&#160;could almost have been written with an icicle. A work of painstaking historical research that&rsquo;s paced like a thriller.&rdquo; &mdash;Departures&#160;&ldquo;Hoffman [proves] that nonfiction can read like a John le Carr&eacute; thriller. . . . This real-life tale of espionage will hook readers from the get-go.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly&#160;(starred review) &#160; &ldquo;Fascinating. . . . Hoffman&rsquo;s revealing of [Adolf Tolkachev] as a person and a spy is brilliantly done, making this mesmerizing true story scary and thrilling.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist (starred review) &#160; &ldquo;Hoffman ably navigates the many strands of this complex espionage story. An intricate, mesmerizing portrayal of the KGB-CIA spy culture. . . . A thoroughly researched excavation of an astoundingly important (and sadly sacrificed) spy for the CIA.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews&ldquo;A fabulous read that also provides chilling insights into the Cold War spy game between Washington and Moscow that has erupted anew under Vladimir Putin. . . . It is also an evocative portrait of everyday life in the crumbling Soviet Union and a meticulously researched guide to CIA sources and methods. I devoured every word, including the footnotes.&rdquo; &mdash;Michael Dobbs, author of&#160;One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War &ldquo;One of the best real-life spy stories ever told. This is a breakthrough book in intelligence writing, drawing on CIA operational cables&mdash;the holy grail of the spy world&mdash;to narrate each astonishing move. Hoffman reveals CIA tradecraft tricks that are more delicious than anything in a spy novel, and his command of the Soviet landscape is masterful. Full of twists so amazing you couldn&rsquo;t make them up, this is spy fact that really is better than fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;David Ignatius, author of The Director&ldquo;The Billion Dollar Spy&#160;reads like the very best spy fiction yet is meticulously drawn from real life. It is a gripping story of courage, professionalism, and betrayal in the secret world.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-1992&ldquo;A scrupulously researched work of history that is also a gripping thriller,&#160;The Billion Dollar Spy&#160;by David E. Hoffman is an unforgettable journey into Cold War espionage. This spellbinding story pulses with the dramatic tension of running an agent in Soviet-era Moscow&mdash;where the KGB is ubiquitous and CIA officers and Russian assets are prey. I was enthralled.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;Peter Finn, co-author of&#160;The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book&#160;

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