A Spy Among Friends : Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Paperback)

from Meredy

Six-word review: Supreme deceiver never known by anyone. Extended review: A thumping good read, I'd call it, even more so than expected: suspenseful, surprising, and engrossing. The mystery and intrigue surrounding Cold War master spy Kim Philby, some of which will never be unraveled, possess dep...

from bcquinnsmom

A Spy Among Friends is, in the words of the author, "not another biography of Kim Philby," ... "less about politics, ideology and accountability than personality, character, and a very British relationship that has never been explored before." Macintyre notes also that the "book does not purport ...

from Clara53

​Fascinating and incredulous, this biographical account of one of the most known (or notorious?) spies in history reads like a novel. Kim Philby "deceived everyone, egregiously, brilliantly, for more than thirty years". I was impressed with the author's intuitive thinking process that he applied ...

from SamSattler

Without a doubt, Kim Philby is one of the most despicable human beings who have ever existed. The damage he did to his country (Great Britain) and its allies before, during, and after World War II was so great that it still cannot be completely and accurately measured. It is not an exaggeration, ...

from alanteder

This is probably as complete a distillation as it is possible to do of the history of the notorious English traitor Kim Philby (appropriately nicknamed after the Rudyard Kipling novel Kim about the "great game" of spying) who worked in British Intelligence (mostly MI6) and also spied for the Sovi...