Vladimir Sakharov was raised with every luxury the Soviet elite could offer--the best schools, a taste for jazz, bourbon, all the Western comforts, and a promising career in the Foreign Ministry. But as he rose in the Soviet ranks, Sakharov's contempt for the KGB also rose, and by the time he was assigned to the Middle East in the 1970s, he had become a CIA spy. HIGH TREASON A gripping human and political story of the defection and escape to freedom that forced one man to abandon his family and leave his world behind.

ISBN: 0345296982