ImageWhen readers meet Ursula Kuczynski Burton, a.k.a. Agent Sonya, a decorated intelligence agent and colonel in Russia’s Red Army, she’s living undercover as a housewife in a small English village. All that her neighbors know about her is that she makes great scones; they don’t realize she’s funneling atomic secrets from Britain and the U.S. to the Soviet Union. Macintyre, the best-selling author of several books about spies, offers a rich portrait of Burton, who was involved in some of the 20th century’s most famous espionage operations. ImageLalami, who was born in Morocco, became an American citizen in 2000, but soon found that her relationship to the state was affected by the fact that she is Muslim, an Arab and a woman.

Source: New York Times August 27, 2020 09:01 UTC