# Help with the name of a different book

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**Created:** [December 19, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-the-name-of-a-different-book/826394 "2018-12-19T23:11:46Z")\
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Years ago I read a book with the plot elements that (among other things) there was a soviet mole and he was identified because his mother had a Stalin document she had stolen in the 1940s. She lived in Chicago.

Googling only gives me non-fiction books about Stalin.

What is the name of the book?