The Russian Five:A story of espionage,defection,bribery,and courage - Keith Gave

for our first book in the group, we are going to discuss the Russian Five, the Soviet professional hockey players who came over to play in the NHL and changed the NHL forever.

There is a great documentary published in 2018 directed by Joshua Riehl. it is available on prime video or on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/mEZ3Y4rmwsU?si=-35X2NzpTSCT77w-

It is not necessary to read and watch both.

Blurb from the book:
In “The Russian Five: A story of espionage, defection, bribery and courage,” Keith Gave, the spy-turned-Detroit Free Press newsman whose clandestine mission to Helsinki, Finland, put the Red Wings’ acquisition of the iconic quintet in motion, shares the pulse-pounding and unforgettable tale of how Sergei Fedorov, Slava Fetisov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Slava Kozlov and Igor Larionov slipped past the Iron Curtain, wound up in crumbling 1990s Detroit, helped build a championship empire and changed the landscape of American hockey forever.