About the book: 1991 / In May 1961, the Old Bailey court heard the case of espionage for the Soviet Union by an employee of the British Foreign Office, George Blake, who was serving at the time of his arrest. in Beirut. He was found guilty of five charges and sentenced to the longest prison term in English judicial history - 42 years. On October 22, 1966, Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London, which immediately became an international sensation. The reader is offered the story of how I planned and carried out Blake's escape from prison, smuggled him out of England and then transported him to Moscow. It is also the story of how I followed him to Moscow via Paris a few weeks later, and of the extraordinary two years I spent in Moscow before returning to Ireland on October 22, 1968, just on the second anniversary of the prison break..