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Lena's Secret War
Lena Kristoff is tricked into working as a spy for the American CIA in Leningrad.
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About Lena's Secret War
Lena Kristoff is tricked into working as a spy for the American CIA in Leningrad. She is a Soviet researcher on one of the best kept secret projects of the 1970s, the computer model of the entire Soviet economic system. If she can smuggle a copy of its secret files to the West, she can help change her country's totalitarian government and buy freedom for her family.Then she meets an American CIA courier named Eric Larson and falls in love. They spend happy days in Leningrad together, until that winter, when he is discovered carrying her secret files. He must flee Russia across the frozen Baltic Sea to Finland. Alas, he is shot and she is gunned down too.Or so it seems.There is much more to the story: An investigation by the military intelligence agency, the GRU, and the dreaded KGB. Soviet operatives chase her as she desperately flees across Eastern Europe. Trapped in Prague with the GRU closing in, her secret war against her government seems doomed to failure.A magnificent story of love, loss, and courage, Lena's Secret War portrays historic events in the making. It is a story of how one brave individual can profoundly alter the trajectory of her gray, spirt-crushing world. A complex modern Russian espionage story and love affair reminiscent of Dr. Zhivago and The Russia House.
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