Deep Undercover Deep Undercover

Deep Undercover

My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America

    • 4.5 • 115 Ratings
    • $12.99
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

One decision can end everything . . . or lead to unlikely redemption.
Millions watched the CBS 60 Minutes special on Jack Barsky in 2015. Now, in this fascinating memoir, the Soviet KGB agent tells his story of gut-wrenching choices, appalling betrayals, his turbulent inner world, and the secret life he lived for years without getting caught.

On October 8, 1978, a Canadian national by the name of William Dyson stepped off a plane at O’Hare International Airport and proceeded toward Customs and Immigration.

Two days later, William Dyson ceased to exist.

The identity was a KGB forgery, used to get one of their own—a young, ambitious East German agent—into the United States.

The plan succeeded, and the spy’s new identity was born: Jack Barsky. He would work undercover for the next decade, carrying out secret operations during the Cold War years . . . until a surprising shift in his allegiance challenged everything he thought he believed.

Deep Undercover will reveal the secret life of this man without a country and tell the story no one ever expected him to tell.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2017
March 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
429
Pages
PUBLISHER
Tyndale House Publishers
SELLER
Tyndale House Publishers
SIZE
27.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Victor Echo 99 ,

A page turner

I couldn’t put book down

etmdc ,

Lack of depth

This had potential to be an interesting book. However, the author spends so much time on his pre spy and post spy life that the reader is left wanting and regretful. If after so much time in the US, the only meaningful intelligence gained was insurance software, then it's hard to see why he was awarded The Red Banner, the USSRs 2nd highest espionage award. Either the author left out the most important part of the story or we grossly overestimated the espionage efforts and results enjoyed by the Soviet Union.

This book lacked substance on the issue most readers would buy it.

JohnW262 ,

Fascinating read

Couldn’t put it down. Brilliant story telling!

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