Redwood by Ben Macintyre review – a superbly wrought tale of cold war defection

<p>This story of Soviet agent and his MI6 handler in revolutionary Iran is a page-turning masterpiece</p><p>Ben Macintyre uses the acronym MICE to describe the reasons people betray their countries: Money, Ideology, Coercion or Ego. In the set-piece that opens his latest work of tr