“The Spy Widow” is the memoir of a former CIA officer and the first female agent to participate in intelligence operations in Moscow. In the 1970s, American Martha Peterson was sent to the USSR to establish contact with an informant codenamed Trigon and on the spot obtain valuable Soviet documents for American intelligence. In her book, Martha Peterson recalls how she decided to become a CIA agent and shares her impressions of life in Soviet Moscow, reveals the details of the operations and tells the story of the exposure of their main informant and his arrest, which caused an international scandal and to which the KGB even dedicated a separate stand in its museum.