DROP DEAD: THE TRUE STORY OF OLEG PNKOVSKY AND THE COLD WAR’S MOST DANGEROUS OPERATION

Book ID/图书代码： 05380013B64384

English Summary/英文概要： In August 1960, a Soviet colonel called Oleg Penkovsky tried to make contact with the West. His first attempt was to approach two American students in Moscow. He handed them a bulky envelope and pleaded with them to deliver it to the American embassy. Inside was an offer to work as a ’soldier-warrior’ for the free world. MI6 and the CIA ran Penkovsky jointly, in an operation that ran through the showdown over Berlin and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He provided crucial intelligence, including photographs of rocket manuals that helped Kennedy end the Cuba crisis and avert a war. Codenamed HERO, Penkovsky is widely seen as the most important spy of the Cold War. But how exactly did the Russians detect Penkovsky, and why did they let him continue his contact with his handlers for months afterwards? Could it be that the whole Cuban Missile Crisis was part of a Soviet deception operation - and has another betrayal hidden in plain sight all these years? Thrilling, evocative and hugely controversial, Dead Drop blows apart the myths surrounding one of the Cold War’s greatest spy operations.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1960年8月,苏联陆军上校OLEG PNKOVSKY试图与西方联系。他第一次尝试接近两个在莫斯科留学的美国学生。他递给他们一个大信封,恳求他们送到美国大使馆。里面是一个作为自由世界“战士”的请求。军情六处和中央情报局联合Penkovsky一起,穿过整个柏林和古巴导弹危机。他提供了重要情报,包括帮助肯尼迪结束古巴危机和避免战争的火箭手册照片。代号为“英雄”,Penkovsky是众所周知的冷战时期最重要的间谍。至于俄罗斯人到底是如何侦探出Penkovsky,后来他们为什么要让他继续他的间谍活动?可以说整个古巴导弹危机是苏联欺骗操作的一部分以及近年来存在显而易见的背叛行为吗? 惊险,激情和富有争议性,《去死吧》撩开了冷战期间一个最伟大间谍行动的神秘面纱(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“杰里．杜恩思是一个值得注意的名字”——威廉•博伊德

’Jeremy Duns is a name to watch’ -- William Boyd

About the Author/作者介绍： 杰里．杜恩思1973年出生,在非洲和亚洲成长。他在牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院读英语文学专业,之后他在布鲁塞尔作为一名记者工作七年。他的处女作《自由球员》,冷战时期间谍惊悚片三部曲的第一部,2009年4月由西蒙和舒斯特出版。其次是续集,2010年8月出版的《自由国家》。

杰里．杜恩思与妻子和两个孩子住在瑞典的斯德哥尔摩。

Jeremy Duns was born in 1973 and grew up mainly in Africa and Asia. He read English Literature at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, after which he worked as a journalist in Brussels for seven years. His debut novel, FREE AGENT, the first in a trilogy of spy thrillers set in the Cold War, was published by Simon and Schuster in April 2009. This was followed by a sequel, FREE COUNTRY, in August 2010.

Jeremy Duns lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.

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