In Gunsight of the KGB

Ushakov was a political theorist in the Soviet Navy and he came under suspicion of writing anti Soviet literature. His ex-wife betrayed him to the Soviet KGB. Once discovered, Ushakov vowed to escape the Soviet Union. He drew up plans to cross into Turkey and devised a timetable to hike through the mountains. This is the exciting part of the book, since he risked both discovery and/or death from the natural elements. This encompassed the first 120 pages. The rest of the book was a discourse in how communism was evil, and anger at his ex-wife. This part of the book is heavy plodding since he goes into philisophy. If anything, read the escape portion of this book. The rest of the book is moralizing about why he defected. He does predict the downfall of the Soviet state and this book was published in 1989. The first 120 pages is a nice read.