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Alex Dryden

    Alex Dryden is a writer and journalist whose extensive experience in security matters informs his compelling narratives. Having witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent toppling of Lenin statues across the former Soviet Union, he has dedicated his work to chronicling Russia's complex transformation. Dryden explores the deceptive dawn of democracy in the post-Soviet era, revealing how the nation evolved into a global center of state power and secrecy. His writing offers a unique perspective on the dynamics of power and governance in a rapidly changing world.

    Red to Black
    • Red to Black

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      A spy thriller, a love story and a chilling look at a resurgent superpower... At the dawn of the new millennium, Finn, an MI6 spy, and Anna, a colonel of the KGB, have been sent to spy on each other. Instead they find a love that becomes to only truth they can trust. A source deep within the Kremlin tells Finn of a plan, hatched in the depths of the Cold War, to dismantle the edifice of the communist state and to bring about the rise of a new imperium within Russia: a plan to control the whole of Europe. Finn's masters in London are blinded by the new wealth pouring out of Russia and he must leave the Service and work in secrecy to uncover the deadly threat it poses to the freedom of every one of us.

      Red to Black2008
      3.2