Nora & John

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>: Narrative that is direct candid unpretentious.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cold War Best Seller Autobiography</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Full True Story of Joseph Stalin's young 'mozho' spy Nora Murray</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A young cold war 'mozho' girl's best seller autobiography. Nora became that spy when Joseph Stalin's brutal secret police wrecked her privileged childhood making her homeless with the loss of friends mother and then father. Utterly alone good times in the Ukraine over and made to consort with British diplomats she fell in love amidst Nazi Germany's WWII invasion of Moscow and her struggle to catch up and escape together inexplicably sanctioned by Stalin's wife on the last boat out.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet society... reduced to a 'mozho' girl mixing with foreigners with instructions to report on them... the real story is in the simple graphic and almost entirely persuasive account of her observations - some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the unforgiving WWII climate of 1940 21-year old Nora is faced with a perilous ultimatum: Enlist with Stalin's secret police as a honey trap or face the death of her family. Despairingly she agrees.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target John Murray a British Embassy cypher in Moscow.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As two disparate lives intertwine their desperate escape leads the couple through frozen Arctic wastelands clutching forged papers and hopes not just for survival but for a future together.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>-------------</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>spy story book; war survivor; cold war spy; war spy; soviet drama; war drama; stalin regime</span></p><p></p>