Yes, I vaguely remember having read a book about a KGB agent, but I have completely forgotten what was the title of that book. What was the author's name? Why don't you ask the Sanchez family why they are keeping this lurid spy book, and what did that mean to them, because although I read it after Carol handed it to me along with some cryptic comments about that, I really have no thought of who those people in the book might have been or whether that had any historical significance. As someone online was reminding me, the Balzac was similarly terrifying although fictional. Apparently the bourgoisie of 19th century Europe were quite a ubiquitous literary force in their day.