Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

"In this must-read for fans of spy novels, truth becomes more exciting and astonishing than fiction."

"Using prodigious research from MI5 and Bundesarchiv files, along with family documents and the cooperation of her children, Macintyre has written an insightful portrait of an amazing life ..."

"She is the strongest character of all in Macintyre's bestselling series of wartime tales ..."

"Drawing from her diaries, correspondences, and extensive interviews with her two adult sons, the author crafts a narrative that serves as both an engrossing historical tale and a compassionate portrait of Sonya as a complex woman with distinctly modern sensibilities for her time ..."

"Macintyre's exhaustively detailed and consistently fascinating account of this amazing woman's life may force us to realign our predilection for clearly delineated hero-versus-villain judgments."

"Drawn from unpublished memoirs and letters, plus Kuczynski's voluminous writings, it reveals an idealist addicted to danger."

"Macintyre's richly detailed account, though a bit ponderous at times, shines a new light on two of WWII's most notorious spy rings."

"Sonya excused brutalities far too lightly, and never disavowed the faith."

"temperate judgments add value to Agent Sonya, a fascinating portrait of a Soviet spy who never recanted her belief in communism, even as the system for which she had risked her life disintegrated."