The fall of a titan

The author, a defector from the Soviet Union's intelligence service who fingered a number of spies and lived under an assumed name in Canada for the rest of his life, wrote this novel to "pay back" his former masters. The review that appeared in Time in 1954 is available on-line at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857527,00.html?promoid=googlep.