BOOK

Swap : a secret history of the new Cold War

Hinshaw, Drew, author, Parkinson, Joe, author

2025

Overview

'Swap' takes you deep inside a shadow war that will upend how you think about global politics. It is a full account of the Kremlin's game of human poker - and the extraordinary lengths the U.S. had to go to to retrieve its citizens, including Brittney Griner, Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva, and numerous others whose arrests were unseen collateral damage in a hidden conflict. The book 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, 24 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.

• Publisher: Harper
• Subject: Politics and Government. / Russia (Federation) Foreign relations United States. / United States Foreign relations Russia (Federation)
• ISBN: 9780063458246

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DK510.764 .H56 2025	1	BOOK	GENERAL