Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden’s Russian lawyer wrote a novel about this story, “The Time of the Octopus” (January 2017)
In Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, fugitive US intelligence officer Joshua Kold is held in limbo, unable to leave the airport’s transit area. He is on the run, after blowing the lid off the terrifying reach of covert American global surveillance operations. Will the Russian authorities grant him asylum, or will they hand him over the clutches of the global octopus eager for revenge for his betrayal.
This book is a fiction, but it is based on Kucherena’s own interviews with Snowden at Sheremetyevo airport, and provides the basis for Oliver Stone’s major Hollywood movie ‘Snowden’.
It took Kucherena a month to negotiate Snowden’s stay and three months to write “Time of the Octopus.” According to WikiLeaks, Stone paid a million dollars for the book.
The original book in Russian. “The whole truth about the American agent on the run,” the cover boasts. Also: “Oliver Stone is currently shooting a film based on this book.”:
The book in English:
Anatoly Kucherena: