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Jack Barsky's memoir of a decade as a KGB sleeper agent living under a false identity in America, then his later life as a suburban father and IT worker before the FBI closed in. It is a first-person espionage account rather than a spy thriller: tradecraft, dead drops and coded radio messages sit alongside the strain on his marriages and his eventual cooperation with US investigators. Readers drawn to Cold War history and real defector stories get a candid, self-questioning narrator; those wanting action-paced spy fiction should look elsewhere.
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Reviewers treat it as a solid, readable sleeper-agent memoir, valued for its insider detail on KGB tradecraft and its unusually honest tone. The common complaint is uneven pacing, with the later family and investigation chapters drawing less interest than the spy years.