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A Spy Among Friends
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ISBN-13:
9781408851784
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.03.2015
Seiten:
352
Autor:
Ben Macintyre
Gewicht:
311 g
Format:
198x128x30 mm
Serie:
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of nine books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, the number 1 bestseller Operation Mincemeat and, most recently, the Richard & Judy Book Club selection, Double Cross. He lives in London.
The Sunday Times number 1 bestselling story of Kim Philby, history's most famous traitor, featuring an Afterword by John le Carré
Agent Zigzag was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2008 and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008. Operation Mincemeat was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Double Cross was also a Sunday Times bestseller, and was a Richard & Judy pick
**NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE**A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLERWITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRÉ'Riveting, astounding ... An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer'Irresistibly readable' Sunday Times'Worthy of John le Carré at his best' Guardian'Hugely engrossing ... Both authoritative and enthralling' William Boyd________________Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, charmer and traitor, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Philby, Nicholas Elliott and James Jesus Angleton were rising stars in the intelligence world and shared every secret. Elliott and Angleton thought they knew Philby better than anyone - and then discovered they had not known him at all.This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience, of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, A Spy Among Friends unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.