Serhii Plokhy, one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, has penned a nonfiction spy thriller. Dr. Plokhy’s latest book, “The Man with the Poison Gun,” tells the story of Bohdan Stashinsky, a KGB assassin who defected to the West in 1961, just hours before the construction of the Berlin Wall, and in … Continue reading Spy thriller based on a true story