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I am not who you think I am.

How a deep cover KGB spy recruited his own son by Sean Walker, read by James Faulkner.

Rudy Herman took a deep breath and asked his son Peter to sit down.

I have a story to tell you, he said.

Rudy had been preparing for this conversation for several years,

running over the words in his mind.

He was about to tell his 16-year-old son that everything Peter thought he knew about

their family was a lie. The pair sat on a bench, and Peter waited quietly for whatever it was,

his father wanted to say. He was an academically gifted and unfailingly polite child,

but he had been struggling psychologically. He had few friends and felt overwhelmed at home.

Rudy, an ambitious German-Canadian filmmaker, was charming with colleagues and friends, but with his son.

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