"The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal" by David E. Hoffman. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2015.

Book description: This is the story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War. Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer in a Soviet military design bureau, used his high-level access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of technical secrets. His revelations allowed America to reshape its weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar on the ground and in the air. One of the most valuable spies to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union, Tolkachev took enormous personal risks—but so did the Americans. Tolkachev and his handlers succeeded for years in eluding the feared KGB in its own backyard, until the day came when a shocking betrayal put them all at risk.

This book was a very slow starter for me, but because it was a recommendation, I kept with it, and I did find it interesting and compelling.

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