A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Macintyre Ben

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Macintyre Ben

Reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John Le Carr , leavened with a dollop of P.G. Wodehouse . . . Macintyre] takes a fresh look at the grandest espionage drama of our era.--New York Times Book Review

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's thrillingly ambitious>A Spy Among Friends tackles the greatest spy story of all: the rise and fall of Kim Philby, MI6's Cambridge-bred golden boy who used his perch high in the intelligence world to betray friend and country to the Soviet Union for over two decades. In Macintyre's telling, Philby's story is not a tale of one spy, but of three: the story of his complex friendships with fellow Englishman operative Nicholas Elliott and with the American James Jesus Angleton, who became one of the most powerful men in the CIA. These men came up together, shared the same background, went to the same schools and clubs, and served the same cause--or so Elliott and Angleton thought. In reality, Philby was channeling all of their confidences directly to his Soviet handlers, sinking almost every great Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies and obfuscations to protect his secret, Angleton and Elliott never abandoned him. When Philby's true master was finally revealed with his defection to Moscow in 1963, it would have profound and devastating consequences on these men who thought they knew him best, and the intelligence services they helped to build.
This remarkable story--now available as a paperback and told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, is Ben Macintyre's best book yet, and a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.

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ISBN 13	9780771055522
ISBN 10	0771055528
Title	A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Author	Macintyre Ben
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Signal
Year published	2015-05-12
Number of pages	384
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