{"product_id":"the-sapphire-affair-the-true-story-behind-alfred-hitchcocks-topaz-9798663757812","title":"The Sapphire Affair: The True Story Behind Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Fergus Mason\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Espionage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe truth is stranger than fiction!\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn October 1962 it looked to millions of people like the politicians of the United States and Russia were determined to push the other across the fatal line of launching a nuclear strike. The fate of the world hung on Cuba, a troubled island state in the Caribbean.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoven through the dramatic events in and around Cuba was a quieter but perhaps equally dangerous scandal - an enormous, deeply embedded network of Soviet spies at the heart of the NATO alliance. A senior KGB defector had revealed that his agency had penetrated the highest levels of the French government, military, and intelligence services - but when a French agent tried to act he found himself blocked at every turn by his own superiors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Hitchcock was so impressed by the fictional novel about the events (Topaz by Leon Uris) that he decided to adapt it into a movie. But fiction, as is often the case, only got half of the story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book tells the remarkable true account of one of the greatest espionage scandals to rock the Cold War.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45557732081815,"sku":"9798663757812","price":1386.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798663757812.webp?v=1767919671","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-sapphire-affair-the-true-story-behind-alfred-hitchcocks-topaz-9798663757812","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}