At enormous risk Tolkachev and his handlers conducted clandestine meetings across Moscow, using spy cameras, props, and private codes to elude the KGB in its own backyard - until a shocking betrayal put them all at risk.?ĭrawing on previously classified CIA documents and interviews with first-hand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story from the final years of the Cold War. In the years that followed, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the West's most valuable spies. While the chief of the CIA's Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car. 'One of the best spy stories to come out of the Cold War and all the more riveting for being true.' Washington Post Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA and on interviews with participants, David Hoffman has created an unprecedented and poignant portrait of Tolkachev, a man motivated by the depredations of the Soviet state to master the craft of spying against his own country. 'A gripping story of courage, professionalism, and betrayal in the secret world.'?Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-1992 The title of David Hoffman’s excellent new book, The Billion Dollar Spy, unintentionally (I think) evokes a famous item from Studies in Intelligence many years ago, The Million Dollar Photograph.
Hoffman is an unforgettable journey into Cold War espionage. 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times A scrupulously researched work of history that is also a gripping thriller, The Billion Dollar Spy by David E.
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