Sergei Kostin

Farewell: the Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century Sergei Kostin

Publisher Marketing:1981: Ronald Reagan s inauguration marks a new escalation in the United States Cold War with the USSR. Months later, Francois Mitterrand is elected president of France with the support of the French Communist Party. The predicted tension between these two men, however, is immediately defused when Mitterrand gives Reagan the Farewell dossier, a file he would later call one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century. Vladimir Ippolitovich Vetrov, a promising technical student, joins the KGB to work as a spy. Following a couple of murky incidents, however, Vetrov is removed from the field and placed at a desk as an analyst. Soon, burdened by a troubled marriage and frustrated at a failing career, Vetrov turns to alcohol. Desperate and in need of redemption, in 1980 he offers his services to the DST, the French counterintelligence service. Thus Agent Farewell is born. Soon he is sneaking files and photographing sensitive documents, keeping the West informed of the USSR s plans right in the heart of KGB headquarters. The most complete account of these dramatic events ever recorded, Kostin and Raynaud s thorough investigation is a fascinating tour de force. Probing further into Vetrov s psychological profile than ever before, they provide groundbreaking insight into the man whose life helped hasten the end of the Cold War." Contributor Bio:  Kostin, Sergei Sergei Kostin is a Russian spy novelist and documentary television film maker who has published four spy novels in Russia. Contributor Bio:  Morey, Arthur Arthur Morey has recorded countless audiobooks, including titles by such authors as M. Scott Peck, John Updike, Richard Russo, Anne Tyler, and John Irving. He attended Harvard and the University of Chicago and has taught performance and writing at Fordham, Northwestern, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Arthur has appeared in a host of off-Broadway and off-Loop productions. He has won three AudioFile Magazine 'Best Of' Awards: in 2011 for BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY, in for History & Historical Fiction, and in 2009 for Nonfiction & Culture. His work has also garnered multiple AudioFile Earphones awards, and he has been nominated for an Audie Award.