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Ben MacIntyre and
John Lee (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
July 29, 2014
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780553397888
ISBN-10
0553397885
Dimensions
1 by 5.25 by 6.25 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Original list price
$40.00
Other format details
audio
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Master storyteller Ben Macintyreâs most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth centuryâs greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britainâs counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold Warâwhile he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philbyâs best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.
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But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscowâand not just Elliottâs words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliottâs unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned himâuntil it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake.
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Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyreâs best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.
From the Hardcover edition.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britainâs counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold Warâwhile he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philbyâs best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.
Â
But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscowâand not just Elliottâs words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliottâs unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned himâuntil it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake.
Â
Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyreâs best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
from Crown Pub (July 29, 2014)
9780804136631 | details & prices | 368 pages | 6.40 × 8.55 × 1.40 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $27.00
Paperback
from Bloomsbury Pub Ltd (October 9, 2014)
9781408861929 | details & prices | 368 pages | List price $21.55
With John Le Carre (other contributor) |
Large print edition from Random House Large Print (July 29, 2014)
9780804194495 | details & prices | 567 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $27.00
About: Master storyteller Ben Macintyreâs most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth centuryâs greatest spy story.
About: Master storyteller Ben Macintyreâs most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth centuryâs greatest spy story.
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With John Lee (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (July 29, 2014)
9780553397888 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $40.00
About: Master storyteller Ben Macintyreâs most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth centuryâs greatest spy story.
About: Master storyteller Ben Macintyreâs most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth centuryâs greatest spy story.
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