From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: the untold story of a Russian double agent with a desperate secret and the key to preventing a nuclear apocalypse.
Join The Globe and Mail for an evening with Ben Macintyre as he discusses his latest book, Redwood. Stay after the conversation to have your book signed by the author.
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is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including The Siege, Prisoners of the Castle, Agent Sonya, SAS: Rogue Heroes, The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times (UK), and has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. Several of his books have been made into films and television series, including Operation Mincemeat, A Spy Among Friends and SAS: Rogue Heroes.
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Robert Fife recently stepped down as The Globe and Mail's Ottawa Bureau Chief. Over a 48 year career covering national politics, He has broken numerous stories. Recently, he and colleague Steven Chase, led the way into an investigation into Chinese foreign interference in Canadian elections and domestic affairs. Based on top secret and secret information from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Mr. Fife’s reporting contributed to the establishment of a judicial inquiry and legislation that resulted in the establishment of a foreign agent registry and changes to the Criminal Code to make foreign interference a criminal offence. His reporting on Canadian universities cooperating with Chinese military institutions led the federal government to ban such research cooperation.
In 2018, Mr. Fife broke the SNC-Lavalin affairs that led to resignations of two senior cabinet ministers, a top lieutenant to the prime minister and the Clerk of the Privy Council – the country’s top civil servant.
In 2016 he and his Globe and Mail colleague Steven Chase wrote a series of stories about Liberal Party cash-for-access fundraisers that resulted in Prime Minister Trudeau modifying all party fundraising.  Mr. Fife uncovered the Senate expense scandal that cost Nigel Wright his job, setting the course for an RCMP investigation, audits and reform of Senate expense rules.Â
As CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief, Mr. Fife set the political agenda in 2014 when he uncovered the Senate expense scandal that resulted in the resignation of the prime minister’s chief of staff and significant reform of Senate expenses. In 2012, he exposed the E. coli contamination of some XL Foods products, forcing the company to recall 1500 tainted meat products. The government subsequently moved food inspections from agriculture to the health department.
He is the former Ottawa Bureau Chief of the National Post and CTV National News and host of CTV's Question Period. He worked as a senior political reporter for United Press International (Canada), The Canadian Press and was Ottawa Bureau Chief for the Sun Media chain. Mr. Fife, who has won many awards for his journalism, is also the author of several books: A Capital Scandal: Politics, Patronage and Payoff; Why Parliament Must Be Reformed; and Kim Campbell: The Making of a Politician
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Judith Pereira is The Globe and Mail’s Arts Editor, a post she’s held since 2021. But her time at the Globe began 20 years before that, when she joined Report on Business magazine while completing her master’s in publishing at Simon Fraser University. She spent nearly two decades at the magazine, winning numerous National Magazine Awards, before becoming the Globe’s Books editor in 2019. Today, she oversees the paper’s daily and weekend arts and culture coverage. In a previous life, she spent a few years in Nunavut (where she helped organize its debut as an official territory) and did a stint reading the slush pile at Penguin Canada (where she discovered nobody).
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