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1981: Ronald Reagan's inauguration represents a new escalation in the United State governments' Cold Conflict with the USSR. Weeks later, François Mitterrand is elected president of France with the support of the French Communist Get together. The predicted anxiety between these two men, however, is immediately defused when Mitterrand offers Reagan the Farewell dossier, a document he would later call "one of the biggest spy situations of the 20th century". Vladimir Ippolitovich Vetrov, a promising technical pupil, joins the KGB to are a spy. Carrying out a handful of murky occurrences, however, Vetrov is removed from the field and positioned at a desk as an analyst. Soon, burdened with a troubled matrimony and frustrated at a faltering career, Vetrov changes to alcohol. Eager and in need of redemption, in 1980 he offers his services to the DST, the French counterintelligence service. Thus Agent Farewell exists. Soon he's sneaking data files and photographing hypersensitive documents, keeping the West educated of the USSR's strategies - right in the heart of KGB headquarters. The most complete account of these dramatic events ever registered, Kostin and Raynaud's thorough investigation is a remarkable tour de pressure. Probing further into Vetrov's internal profile than ever before, they offer groundbreaking insight into the man whose life helped hasten the end of the Freezing War.
