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. This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience, of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. Elliott and Angleton thought they knew Philby better than anyone - and then discovered they had not known him at all. 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. Agent, double agent, charmer and traitor, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. ‘Riveting, astounding … An unputdownable postwar thriller’ Observer ‘Irresistibly readable’ Sunday Times ‘Worthy of John le Carre 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. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRE Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, among other books.Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.
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