The Cold War, John Lewis Gaddis writing but of a life not

but of a life not lived

In his groundbreaking book Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime

including Chinese Americans like Lily

Clark insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge

it calls into question everything he knows

The Cold War, John Lewis Gaddis writing but of a life notIn 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International Communism seemed everywhere on the all of Eastern Europe was securely in the Soviet camp; America's monopoly on nuclear weapons was a thing of the past; and Mao's forces had assumed control over the world's most populous country. The story of the previous five decades was one of the worst fears