The book narrates the astonishing tale of how Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service recruited a KGB officer named Oleg Gordievsky in 1974 and ran him as its agent for 11 years.

In Ava Glass's latest novel, "The Traitor," spy Emma Makepeace goes undercover on a yacht. Read an excerpt of the book here.

“Our Kind of Traitor: A Novel” By John Le Carre Viking, $27.95, 310 pages There are writers whose work will, as time has shown and will show, become immortal: Shakespeare, Keats, Melville ...

A review of John le Carré's new novel, "Our Kind of Traitor," which looks at what happens when a mysterious Russian businessman, bent on betraying his criminal cohorts in exchange ...

Who was the most important spy of the Cold War era? Ben Macintyre convincingly nominates Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who spied for MI6 (the British Secret Intelligence Service) for 11 years ...

In The Traitor's Emblem, a young man spends his adolescence and early manhood seeking the truth about his father, who allegedly died in a heroic maritime incident towards the end of World War I ...

It is an interesting idea that Benedict Arnold, the traitor of the American Revolution so famous that his name became a common noun for betrayer, did it all because he ...