About the book
How a young, ambitious East German agent became a KGB spy living under cover in the United States is the story Jack Barsky tells in his memoir. On October 8, 1978, a traveler with a forged Canadian identity, William Dyson, landed at O'Hare International Airport; two days later that name vanished and the agent took on a new one, Jack Barsky. He carried out secret operations through the following decade of the Cold War without being caught, until a shift in his allegiance challenged everything he believed. The memoir covers his hard choices, the betrayals along the way and his turbulent inner life. Millions had already heard his story through a CBS 60 Minutes special in 2015.
Max Gurvits, director of Cross Border Angels, mentioned it in an interview about his favorite books and wanted to give a copy to his father as a present.
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Max Gurvits (Director/Cross Border Angels)
Sometimes it does happen that for whatever reason an English book only comes out on paper, and I had an interesting experience recently with Jack Barskyʼs book about his years as a KGB spy in the US (Jack Barsky - Deep Undercover: My Secret Life & Tangled Allegiance As a KGB Spy in America). I really wanted to give the book as a present to my dad, which normally would involve buying it on Kindle and dispatching to his e-mail address, but then it turned out itʼs only available in print! And so I had it delivered to the place I always stay at in San Francisco (for free, thanks Amazon Prime!), and then found myself inadvertently with a big bulky object for the next two weeks, until I saw my dad again in Europe. Which of course allowed me to read the book myself, but also presented me with inconveniences I had already forgotten about.
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