The Spy in the Archive
2025 Book jacket | |
| Author | Gordon Corera |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Gordon Corera |
| Subject | Espionage, Spy craft |
| Genre | Biographies |
| Set in | Soviet Union and Britain |
| Published | 2025, 2026 |
| Publisher | William Collins, London, Pegasus Books |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print, E-book, Audio |
| Pages | 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates |
| ISBN | 9780008644796 9780008644802 |
| OCLC | 1523443398 |
| Preceded by | Operation Columba |
The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB is a nonfiction account of a former Soviet Union KGB librarian, Vasili Mitrokhin, who smuggled highly valued secret archives (of information) to the Western democracies. He later defected the United Kingdom in 1992 with the help of the British MI6. The book was written by Gordon Corera and published by Pegasus Books in January 2026.[1][2][3][4][5] It was previously published by William Collins, London, in 2025.[4]
See also
- The Illegals by Shaun Walker
- Russians Among Us by Gordon Corera
References
- ^ Nazaryan, Alexander (January 6, 2026). "The Lowly Clerk Who Tried to Bring Down the K.G.B." The New York Times. Retrieved February 12, 2026.
- ^ Nagorski, Andrew (6 January 2026). "'The Spy in the Archive' Review: A Dossier on the KGB". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ Lipman, Maria (21 October 2025). "The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB". Foreign Affairs. Vol. 104, no. 6.
- ^ a b Owen, James (31 May 2025). "How an oddball smuggled out the KGB's biggest secrets". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ Andrew, Christopher (30 May 2025). "The KGB man who betrayed the USSR and smuggled secrets to Britain". The Telegraph.
Further reading
- Corera, Gordon (2018). Operation Columba. HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 9780062667076.
External links
- Official website Pegasus Books.
- Official website Simon & Schuster.