Dancing With Spies

In these memoirs, prominent Russian journalist Andrei Ostalski tells the story of his life on the border between truth and lies in some of the world's most dangerous places.

As Middle East correspondent for the Soviet TASS news agency, he experienced disturbing and often traumatic encounters with the shadowy world of international espionage where normal rules and laws - legal and moral - don't apply. Following the collapse of Communist rule, Ostalski became Foreign Editor of Izvestia in Moscow, a world-renowned liberal newspaper at the time.

After moving to the UK, he worked as editor of the BBC's Russian Service and later as a freelance commentator on Russian affairs. He has published 18 books in Russian; this is his second in English.