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The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre is a gripping non-fiction account of the life of Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who became one of the most important spies for the British intelligence agency, MI6, during the Cold War.

The book builds toward Gordievsky's dramatic escape from the Soviet Union in 1985, orchestrated by MI6 in a thrilling cross-border operation that reads like a spy novel. Macintyre’s storytelling mixes historical fact with the intense personal stakes involved, making it both an exciting and insightful look at espionage during one of the most dangerous periods of modern history.

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins is a 2020 novel that follows the harrowing journey of Lydia Quixano Pérez, a bookstore owner in Acapulco, Mexico, who is forced to flee to the U.S. with her son, Luca, after a drug cartel murders her family. the novel is an emotional and gripping story of survival and resilience but is also accompanied by substantial debate about the ethics of its portrayal of Latin American migration.