Swap : a secret history of the new Cold War
(2025)
By:
Hinshaw, Drew
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW HISTORY
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
©2025
©2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063458246, 0063458241, 9780063458246
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Swap unspools the history behind the series of prisoner trades that returned Moscow and Washington to the crude transactional logic of the Cold War, culminating in the two rivals' largest and most complex swap ever. On August 1, 2024, twenty-four people jailed in seven nations were exchanged, including eight Russian spies, smugglers, hackers, and a professional hit man. But that headline moment was only the climax of a secret war two decades in the making. --