A Rose for Sergei eBook K Kidd
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“Do we really know what we are getting ourselves into…”
Sergei Kourdakov jumped from a Russian trawler in 1971 and barely survived the treacherous swim to the rocky shores of Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada. The handsome, twenty-year-old ex-KGB naval intelligence officer had defected—leaving behind a horrific life he could no longer face.
K. Kidd’s search for independence and a career with the Federal Government led her on a journey that far surpassed any expectations. A year after Sergei defected; she was introduced to him at her office in Washington, DC. The moment they met, the immediate attraction surprised them both. “Even you could be spy,” Sergei whispered.
This improbable, unbelievable, true story chronicles K. Kidd’s real-life relationship with a man who gave up everything for freedom. In her eye-opening memoir, the author reveals a side of Sergei Kourdakov that few people ever saw.
“Your story is amazing.”
—Anna Whiston-Donaldson, New York Times best-selling author of Rare Bird A Memoir of Loss and Love
“Gripping read, gripping Memoir.”
“Fascinating true-life Cold War Romance.”
“This is a must read if you've read the book, The Persecutor.”
**Note This book has been cleared for open publication by the Department of Defense’s Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DoD/OPSR).
A Rose for Sergei eBook K Kidd
A beautiful love story centered around two young people from vastly different worlds in the early 70's. What sets their love story apart from all others? A few reasons.One: Both live a life so out of the norm for most.
You have an ambitious independent young woman from D.C. who dives straight into life after high school into a world most people would be in awe over as they wonder, "Does that really happen outside of movies?". I mean, how many of you can say you know someone in or has ever been involved with the CIA or other secret parts of the federal government, let alone worked within such organizations (I mean working at the pentagon? Wow.), and lived a normal upbringing among it all? But she doesn't stop at the first step offered to her. This young woman continues to work hard and advance up the ladder in spite of some truly scary things happening to her. She is brave and dedicated and remarkable throughout this story.
"My thoughts flashed back to security briefings from when I worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). We were taught to be on the lookout for anyone trying to coerce secret information from us. These people could be friends or neighbors, someone that you would not ordinarily suspect. They had a word for people like that…spy. The thought that Sergei could be a spy did cross my mind, but I knew I had never told him I used to work for DIA. I brushed those thoughts away for now since I knew I tended to be overly suspicious sometimes. But then, I always did love mystery and intrigue."
Then you have a young man from Russia, who since a young age has seen more tragedy and more of the worlds ugliest sides than any one person should. After being orphaned so young, life turns into a mission of survival for this young man. He later joins the KGB and was put in the duty of (among other things) breaking up the secret meetings of Christians. But his life takes a drastic change when after several raids on the Christian's, he becomes curious of their strong beliefs and in so curiously searching out the word of God, to thirsting for His word above all, then to accepting Jesus into his life. And so, through an act of God that gave him pause, he turns to Christ and defects from the Soviet Union to America.
"Beautiful girl like you...you could be spy!"
Two: The best part? This is a TRUE story, these are REAL people. Two people from different worlds get hurdled into each others lives through fate? Chance? Though they could not be more different, though the short journey they take together is full of mystery, danger, and secrets, it is also full of wonder, life, and love.
And all I am left with is wow. Yes, I really enjoyed this story. Yes, I recommend this book to anyone looking for a real life true love story with a bitter-sweet ending, but a moving lesson, love knows no bounds. K. A. Kidd writes her story beautifully, sucking you in to her world, telling you her story through her eyes.
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A Rose for Sergei eBook K Kidd Reviews
This is an excellent book, couldn’t put it down, but sad because I knew the ending and it was hard to read that! I had the pleasure of meeting Sergei a few weeks before the end. He was a beautiful young man enthusiastic about witnessing for Jesus and reaching the world! This is a beautiful romance story of two young lovers, very tender, sensitive, emotional, a tear jerker in places, but a very good read for those trying to understand those times, and the KGB! Putin is kgb , always will be, so is predictable because they never give up and are out to win at all cost! Wake up Americans, things are worse than ever, and Trump is doing a god job of countering, but everybody is out to get him instead of paying attention to the real threat of WW3 breaking out on Ukrainian border! Wake up, learn, pay attention! Pray for Ukraine!
This is a fascinating true story. The writing is conversational—I felt like I was sitting with Ms. Kidd as she retold this story from her youth. In that sense, it is not tight, literary writing; there is a fair amount of repetition that a good editor would have cut. But other than that, the editing was flawless. The story has a strong sense of both time and place. The time is around the end of the Mad Men era. On more than one occasion, I pictured the author as Peggy from that show—young and naive and headstrong and on her own. Comparing the evolution of a romance in the early 70s to the swipe-left-let's-do-it of today is stunning. The slow pace of the romance was fascinating and compelling. The story is set in the DC area—a place I've spent a lot of time. It was interesting to be transported to those roads I once traveled myself, but twenty years after this story took place. The story ended abruptly, but rightly so, as so did the romance. I really liked this book, and I highly recommend it.
I truly enjoyed this book. I found it to be a bittersweet love story between a young American woman and a former KGB Agent who escaped a life he didn't want and could no longer face. It's a true story of courage, sacrifice and belief in Christ who will always lead us to something better if we are willing to follow.
What I loved most is this is a true story, however, it reads like Fiction. I had to keep reminding myself, this is real...this happened. I loved how the author made you feel like you were back in the early 70's when reading it. True talent transports a reader to another world and that's how it felt.
I could feel the fear. I could feel the love. I could feel the heartbreak. A wonderful memoir.
This is not at all the sort of book I would normally read, but as a Russianist I was fascinated by the premise. It's the true-life account of the author's relationship with Soviet defector and ex-KGB agent Sergei Kourdakov, one of the more unusual figures in the Cold War. The book is billed as reading like a romance novel, and it certainly does, capturing the giddiness of young love as the two main figures fall head-over-heels for each other at first sight. I also found it very interesting to read about the author's experiences as a young woman making a career for herself in government service in the early 1970s. This is a bit of a hybrid book, combining as it does the genres of memoir, romance, and cold war thriller, so purists of any of the genres may not know what to make of it, but I found it a quick easy read and an interesting take on one of the hotter periods of the Cold War
A beautiful love story centered around two young people from vastly different worlds in the early 70's. What sets their love story apart from all others? A few reasons.
One Both live a life so out of the norm for most.
You have an ambitious independent young woman from D.C. who dives straight into life after high school into a world most people would be in awe over as they wonder, "Does that really happen outside of movies?". I mean, how many of you can say you know someone in or has ever been involved with the CIA or other secret parts of the federal government, let alone worked within such organizations (I mean working at the pentagon? Wow.), and lived a normal upbringing among it all? But she doesn't stop at the first step offered to her. This young woman continues to work hard and advance up the ladder in spite of some truly scary things happening to her. She is brave and dedicated and remarkable throughout this story.
"My thoughts flashed back to security briefings from when I worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). We were taught to be on the lookout for anyone trying to coerce secret information from us. These people could be friends or neighbors, someone that you would not ordinarily suspect. They had a word for people like that…spy. The thought that Sergei could be a spy did cross my mind, but I knew I had never told him I used to work for DIA. I brushed those thoughts away for now since I knew I tended to be overly suspicious sometimes. But then, I always did love mystery and intrigue."
Then you have a young man from Russia, who since a young age has seen more tragedy and more of the worlds ugliest sides than any one person should. After being orphaned so young, life turns into a mission of survival for this young man. He later joins the KGB and was put in the duty of (among other things) breaking up the secret meetings of Christians. But his life takes a drastic change when after several raids on the Christian's, he becomes curious of their strong beliefs and in so curiously searching out the word of God, to thirsting for His word above all, then to accepting Jesus into his life. And so, through an act of God that gave him pause, he turns to Christ and defects from the Soviet Union to America.
"Beautiful girl like you...you could be spy!"
Two The best part? This is a TRUE story, these are REAL people. Two people from different worlds get hurdled into each others lives through fate? Chance? Though they could not be more different, though the short journey they take together is full of mystery, danger, and secrets, it is also full of wonder, life, and love.
And all I am left with is wow. Yes, I really enjoyed this story. Yes, I recommend this book to anyone looking for a real life true love story with a bitter-sweet ending, but a moving lesson, love knows no bounds. K. A. Kidd writes her story beautifully, sucking you in to her world, telling you her story through her eyes.
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