Ben Macintyre reveals why true story behind new book shows how the "world might not exist at all"

Ben Macintyre on a spy who was the opposite of James Bond but helped win the cold war

Redwood, aka Vladimir Kuzichkin, had lost faith in Moscow, but it was his loss of ‘bedroom power’ that sent the Tehran-based spy to MI6, says Ben Macintyre

Ben Macintyre reveals why true story behind new book shows how the "world might not exist at all"

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.“It’s about one man’s psychosexual secret – but if it weren’t for that very private problem, we might not be living in the same world today,” says Ben Macintyre. “In fact, the world might not exist at all.”Book blurb bluster? “It’s no exaggeration,” insists the author and associate editor at The Times. “This guy is unlike any other spy that I’ve ever come across, and it’s the strangest, most fa…