Anatoly Kucherena

This book pretends to be a true record of Edward Snowden's life, starting with his life in Moscow, and also looks back on how his earlier life led him to this point. This account is sharply contradicted, however, by Snowden's recent autobiography, Permanent Record. Snowden's own account of these time periods is both much less salacious and much more compelling than Time of the Octopus. I recommend that you treat Time of the Octopus, if you read it at all, as a total work of fiction.