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