Agent Sonya
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin
A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'His best book yet' The Times
'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause' Sunday Times
DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER - FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR
Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent. Codenamed 'Agent Sonya', her story has never been told - until now.
Born to a German Jewish family, as Ursula grew, so did the Nazis' power. As a fanatical opponent of the fascism that ravaged her homeland, Ursula was drawn to communism as a young woman, motivated by the promise of a fair and peaceful society.
From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, to preventing nuclear war (or so she believed) by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from Britain to give to Moscow, Ursula conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century.
In Agent Sonya, Britain's most acclaimed historian Ben Macintyre delivers an exhilarating tale that's as fast-paced as any fiction. It is the incredible story of one spy's life, a life that would alter the course of history . . .
'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston
'Macintyre has found a real-life heroine worthy of his gifts as John le Carré's nonfiction counterpart' New York Times
'This book is classic Ben Macintyre . . . quirky human details enliven every page' Spectator
© Ben MacIntyre 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Customer Reviews
Amazing
This is an amazingly well told story of the extraordinary life of a GRU spy was at the heart of so much from first being recruited to her retirement as a spy.
Would highly recommend to anyone interested in the genre - you won’t be able to put it down!
Oddly flat
Disappointingly slow. A fascinating story, poorly told. Unlike the Spy & The Traitor, which was very good, this gets bogged down in detail that doesn’t drive the story.
Sound Quality is unlistenable
Bought and downloaded on an iPhone 12 through the book store.
The audio book is unlistenable. The “aliasing” on the final is absolutely horrible. To the point where I can’t stand listening to it. The “digital birds” i associate with REALLY low bit rate mp3 encoding is apparent. DO not buy this book in audio format