# Red Traitor by Owen Matthews (Paperback)

**'This is Robert Harris storytelling territory and is told with equal panache and authenticity. There could be no higher praise.'** _Daily Mail_  
  
One the least known but most terrifying moments in modern history - when the fate of the world lay with a lone, nervous Soviet naval officer one hundred meters under the Caribbean sea - lies at the heart of this breathtaking new Cold War thriller from the author of the acclaimed _Black Sun_.  
  
The year is 1962, and KGB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin is searching for ghosts- for evidence of the long-rumoured existence of an American spy embedded at the highest echelons of Soviet power. But it's while on this wild goose chase, a high-stakes espionage race against a rival State agency, that Vasin first hears whispers of an ominous top-secret undertaking- _Operation Anadyr._  
  
As tensions flare between Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy over Russian missiles hidden in Cuba, four Soviet submarines - each carrying tactical ballistic missiles armed with thermonuclear warheads - are ordered to make a covert run at the U.S. blockade in the Caribbean . . .

## Details

- **Price:** 9.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Transworld Publishers Limited
- **Tags:** All, thrillers

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> Updated: 2026-09-12