A Spy Named Orphan : The Enigma of Donald Maclean Hardback
by Roland Philipps
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Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades. Christened `Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was the perfect spy and Britain's most gifted traitor.
But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him.
Moments before he was unmasked, Maclean vanished. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, Roland Philipps now tells this story for the first time in full.
He unravels Maclean's character and contradictions: a childhood that was simultaneously liberal and austere; a Cambridge education mixing in Communist circles; a polished diplomat with a tendency to wild binges; a marriage complicated by secrets; an accelerated rise through the Foreign Office and, above all, a gift for deception. Taking us back to the golden age of espionage, A Spy Named Orphan reveals the impact of one of the most dangerous and enigmatic Soviet agents of the twentieth century, whose actions heightened the tensions of the Cold War.
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- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:15/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781847923936
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:15/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781847923936