When I got the audio book of Andrew Meier's The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service, I expected to be about a stereotypical spy - or at least something close.

Instead, the book is about a guy that believed in the Soviet ideals, offered his help, and ended up somewhat stuck inside a spy system doing menial work (on the spy scale) and becoming ever more fearful of what his minders would do to him.

Its an interesting tale of what the realities of the Soviet system were from its inception thru WW2. How people could have been so blind to the realities of Soviet governance still baffles me.