If you love Doctor Zhivago, you will love this book. Add the story of the Cold War era CIA espionage used to circumvent serious Soviet obstacles to publication of Boris Pasternak’s Nobel prize-winning novel, and you’ll love Prescott’s debut book even more.

Some of us may wonder why Stalin never sent Pasternak to the gulag when he sent so many other writers, musicians, and others there or even to their deaths. While no one would ever accuse Stalin of having any soft spot, he actually did like Pasternak’s pre-Zhivago poetry enough to spare him.

While Doctor Zhivago has been read and loved worldwide for more than 60 years, HOW that became possible has been revealed only recently.This is what Prescott's book explores, in fictionalized form.