The Zhivago Affair (Random House)

In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village outside Moscow carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's only novel, which Soviet authorities viewed as an unacceptable attack on the 1917 Revolution. First to obtain CIA files providing proof of the agency's involvement, Finn and Couvée give us a literary thriller that takes us back to when literature had the power to stir the world.