Red Traitor by Owen Matthews

The Cuban Missile Crisis, seen from inside the KGB

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Moscow, 1962. KGB officer Alexander Vasin feels as though he's chasing ghosts, ordered to find an American spy rumoured to be embedded at the highest levels of Soviet power. But while pursuing this mole, Vasin stumbles onto a far more explosive secret: a top-secret operation that could push the world to the brink of nuclear war. The Kremlin has deployed short-range nuclear missiles to Cuba, just ninety miles from the US coast, backed by submarines carrying nuclear payloads, one of them commanded by an officer dangerously unfit for the role. As tensions between the USSR and the USA escalate toward catastrophe, Vasin faces an impossible dilemma: how to warn his enemy without betraying his country. Owen Matthews weaves historical fact with taut, nail-biting fiction to bring one of the twentieth century's most dangerous stand-offs vividly to life.