The immediate, explosive story of Russia’s reconnaissance efforts versus the West from the Cold War to the present– including their interference in the 2016 presidential political election.

Like a scene from a le Carre story or the TV dramatization The Americans, in the summer season of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper representatives were arrested. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and ten individuals, consisting of Anna Chapman, were switched for four people kept in Russia. At the time it was seen simply as a throwback to the Cold War. However that would verify to be a costly blunder. It was an indicator that the Russian risk had never gone away and a lot more notably, it was changing into a lot more turbulent brand-new phase. Today, the danger is more clear than ever complying with the poisoning in the UK of one of the spies that was exchanged, Sergei Skripal, and the expanding proof of Russian disturbance in American life.

In this thoroughly looked into and gripping, novelistic story, Gordon Corera discovers the tale of just how Cold War spying has developed– and undoubtedly, is still very much with us.

Russians Amongst Us explains for the first time the tale of deep cover spies in America and the FBI agents who tracked them. In intimate and fascinating detail, it exposes brand-new information concerning today’s spies– as well as those trying to capture them and those trying to kill them.