TY - BOOK AU - Kuhne,Cecil C. TI - KGB Man: the cold war's most notorious Soviet agent and the first to be exchanged at the Bridge of Spies SN - 9781637585924 AV - UB271 .R92 K96 2023 U1 - 327.1247092B 23/eng/20221215 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Knox Press KW - Abel, Rudolf, KW - Spies KW - Soviet Union KW - Biography KW - Great Britain KW - Espionage, Soviet KW - United States KW - fast KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N2 - "A thin, balding, and reclusive middle-aged Russian by the name of Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was one of the Soviet Union's most renowned spies during the Cold War of the 1950s ... until his cover was blown by an incompetent colleague who wanted to defect to the United States. This is the full account of Abel's espionage work, his dramatic apprehension, his eventual conviction and its affirmation by the United States Supreme Court, and finally, his surprising release back to Russia"-- ER -