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Title: Lifeless "biography"
Review: This is one of the most lifeless biographies I have ever read, presumably because it was written by a KGP officer who reveals almost nothing about what this female spy did in her 30-year career.It reads like an itinerary of trips she made to various countries around the world. She is not only distant as an individual but we do not even know if she achieved anything as a spy who supported Stalin and the whole rotten Communist system.She is said to have been the wife of a leader of the US Communist Party, the lover of British spy Donald Maclean and involved in spying on the development of the atomic bomb by the US.However, we learn nothing about her and the book is like empty coat.The commentator/translator is described as a "retired banker who divides his time between Bermuda and New York". Hmm, could he be a spy too?No wonder I found it languishing ignored on the discount counter of a bookshop in So Paulo and why I am the first to review it 10 years after publication.
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