A spy among friends : Kim Philby and the great betrayal

Macintyre, Ben 1963- (Author).

Summary: "Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. This definitive biography unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War."

Record details

ISBN: 9780771055508 (hc.) :
Physical Description: print
xii, 368 pages, [32 pages of plates] : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Signal ; McClelland & Stewart, c2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Apprentice spy -- Section V -- Otto and Sonny -- Boo, boo, baby, i'm a spy -- Three young spies -- The German defector -- The Soviet defector -- Rising stars -- Stormy seas -- Homer's odyssey -- Peach -- The robber barons -- The third man -- One man in Beirut -- The fox who came to stay -- A most promising officer -- I thought it would be you -- Teatime -- The fade -- Three old spies.