“The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of Cold War” is an interesting storybook where the author tells us how the war between Russia and Britain started and how it can be stopped. Here in this book author tells the history of these two countries from 1968 till the 21st century. This book is written by Ben Macintyre. He is one of the bestselling authors of the New York Times. Here he tried to explain that it is unbelievable that two or more countries in this world give benefit to each other without expecting and demanding something and there is always a cold war between the neighboring countries. The author tells us how leaders compete with each other and the consequences of this competition. The major discussion this book covers is that everything doesn’t look like what it actually is so do not judge the relations between two countries by seeing how much trading they are doing with each other. Rather there is behind the scene story which provides you actual knowledge. The book is an amazing description of international relations between the superpowers of the world. In short, this is an interesting and amusing book for readers who have an interest in current affairs and national and international relations.