A spy among friends : Kim Philby's great betrayal

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A spy among friends : Kim Philby's great betrayal

Title remainder

Kim Philby's great betrayal

Statement of responsibility

Ben Macintyre

Title variation

spy among friends

Title variation remainder

Kim Philbys great betrayal

Creator

• Macintyre, Ben, 1963-
• trueMacintyre, Ben, 1963-

Subject

• trueBetrayal
• trueBiographies
• Biography
• trueDouble agents
• trueElliott, Nicholas, 1916-1994
• Espionage, Soviet
• Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History
• Great Britain
• trueGreat Britain -- History -- 20th century
• History
• trueHistory Writing -- Spies and Spying
• trueKGB -- British operations
• trueLife stories -- Law and order | Spies and secret agents
• truePhilby, Kim, 1912-1988
• Philby, Kim, 1912-1988
• trueAngleton, James, 1917-1987
• trueSecret service -- Great Britain
• trueSoviet Union -- History -- 1953-1991
• Spies
• Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography
• trueSpies -- Great Britain -- Biography
• trueSpies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
• Philby, Kim, 1912-1988

Genre

• trueBiography
• trueBiographies
• trueHistory
• trueHistory Writing
• trueLife stories

Language

eng

Summary

• The best-selling author of Operation Mincemeat presents a definitive portrait of the notorious 20th-century spy that discusses his rise in MI6, high-profile intelligence friendships and 20-year espionage operation that culminated in his 1963 defection to Moscow
• "Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War - while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's 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. But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow - and not just Elliott's words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliott's 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 him - until 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."--book jacket

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueSuspenseful

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueJournalistic

Award

• Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2015.
• New York Times Notable Book, 2014

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 327.1247041092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

UB271.R92

LC item number

P435 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult