Red traitor, p.36
Red Traitor, page 36
—OM
Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire, August 13, 2020
FURTHER READING
OLEG PENKOVSKY
Jeremy Duns, Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War’s Most Dangerous Operation (London: Simon and Schuster, 2013).
Oleg Penkovsky, The Penkovsky Papers (London: Collins, 1965).
Greville Wynne, The Man from Moscow: The Story of Wynne and Penkovsky (London: Hutchinson, 1967).
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Graham Allyson and Philip Zelikow, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2nd ed. (New York: Longman, 1999).
James Blight, The Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1990).
Alexander Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958–1964 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).
Raymond Garthoff, “New Evidence on the Cuban Missile Crisis: Khrushchev, Nuclear Weapons, and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” in Cold War International History Bulletin 11 (Winter 1998).
Anatoly Gribkov and William Smith, Operation Anadyr: U.S. and Soviet Generals Recount the Cuban Missile Crisis (Edition Q, 1994).
Peter Huchthausen, October Fury (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2002).
THE CUBAN SUBMARINE FLOTILLA
Captain Third Class Anatoly Andreyev’s diary, in Nikolai Cherkashin, Povsednevnaya Zhizn’ Rossiiskikh Podvodnikov [Daily Life of Russian Submariners] (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2000).
Thomas S. Blanton and William Burr, “The Submarines of October: U.S. and Soviet Naval Encounters During the Cuban Missile Crisis,” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 75 (October 31, 2002), https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/.
Alexi Dubivko, “In the Depths of the Sargasso Seas,” in On the Edge of the Nuclear Precipice (Moscow: Gregory Page, 1988).
Alexander Mozgovoi, Kubinskaya Samba Kvarteta Foxtrotov [The Cuban Samba of the Foxtrot Quartet] (Moscow: Voennyi Parad, 2002).
Svetlana V. Savranskaya, “New Sources on the Role of Soviet Submarines in the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Journal of Strategic Studies (2005) 28:2.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many people helped this book in its journey onto the page—first and foremost my dedicated and brilliant editor, Robert Bloom at Doubleday, who worked tirelessly above and beyond the call of duty to shape and polish Red Traitor. Without my agent Toby Mundy I would never have hooked up with Rob, or thought to make Alexander Vasin the hero of a trilogy. And without the encouragement of my friends I would never have imagined writing my first thriller in the first place. Particular thanks to Lisa Hilton, Jonny Dymond, Andrew Jeffreys, and Charles Cumming for all their help and support while the book was being written. And to Xenia, Nikita, and Teddy for putting up with a writer in the house, which is no easy fate. Finally, a bow to the real Alexander Vasin, my late uncle, who as a young Soviet tank commander lost a leg outside Smolensk in 1944 but despite his disability rose to be the USSR’s deputy minister of justice and a wise and loving husband to my aunt Lenina.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Owen Matthews has reported on conflicts in Bosnia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, and Ukraine and was Newsweek magazine’s bureau chief in Moscow from 2006 to 2016. He is the author of Black Sun (2019), the first book in the series of political thrillers featuring KGB major Alexander Vasin, and is also the author of several nonfiction books, including Stalin’s Children, Glorious Misadventures, and An Impeccable Sky.
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