Spotted in Vino’s – Edinburgh-based biographer Vin Arthey.
He was ordering wine for the launch at Waterstones on George Street of a new edition of his Abel: The True Story of the Spy They Traded for Gary Powers.
The event was timed to coincide with the Edinburgh release of Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, a film based on the same story and drawing heavily on Arthey’s researches.
You can read more about his his 57-year interest in ‘the Kremlin’s Geordie Spy’ in this 2011 interview made to accompany a previous iteration of the book.
Arthey’s daughter and family live in Bellevue, which is how he came to find himself in our neck of the woods.
