Andropov’s Cuckoo – A Story of Love, Intrigue and the KGB: A dying man recounts the story of the most amazing person he has ever met, a brilliant, Soviet linguist, whom he calls Youriko. It is a tale of love, daring-do, spies and danger set in Japan, Germany, Turkey, the USA, Canada and the UK, but mostly in the Soviet Union of the Seventies. Andropov’s Cuckoo is based on a ‘true story’ related to the author by one of the protagonists.