02864cam a2200409 4500 623720950 TxAuBib 20170919120000.0 170919s2017||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781432841409 Large print; hardcover 1432841408 Large print; hardcover TXKPL eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib Christie, William, 1960- A Single Spy / William Christie. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017. c 2017. 603 pages, (Large print) ; 23 cm. " A single spy - in the right place and at the right moment -- may change the course of history". Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secret police, he is given a choice: be trained and inserted as a spy into Nazy Germany under the identity of his best friend, a long lost nephew of a high ranking Nazi official, or disappear forever in the basement of the Lubyanka. For Alexsi, its no choice at all. Over the course of the next seven years, Alexsi has to live his role, that of the devoted nephew of a high Nazi official, and ultimately works for the legendary German spymaster Wilhelm Canaris as an intelligence agent in the Abwehr. All the while, acting as a double agent --reporting back to the NKVD and avoiding detection by the Gestapo. Trapped between the implacable forces of two of the most notorious distatorships in history, and truly loval to no one but himself, Alexsi's goal remains the same -- survival. In 1943 Alexsi is chosen by the Gestapo to spearhead one of the most desperate operations of the war -- to infiltrate the site of the upcoming Tehran conference between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, and set them up to be assassinated. For Alexsi, it's the moment of truth, for the rest of the world, the future is at stake. 20170919. World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924. 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945. World War, (1939-1945, Soviet Union v Fiction.) World War, (1939-1945, Germany v Fiction.) Intelligence officers. Undercover operations. Spy stories. Germany. Soviet Union (OCoLC)fst01210281. Large type book. Spy fiction lcgft. Thrillers. Historical fiction lcgft. Suspense fiction. TXKPL