Mask of Treachery
Title | Mask of Treachery PDF eBook |
Author | John Costello |
Publisher | Grand Central Pub |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780446357838 |
Picking up where the million-copy bestselling Spycatcher left off, here is the first book to use newly declassified documents to expose the shocking double lives of the most notorious Soviet spies of the postwar era--the Cambridge spy ring.
Mask of Treachery
Title | Mask of Treachery PDF eBook |
Author | John Costello |
Publisher | William Morrow |
Pages | 774 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | True Crime |
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About an espionage ring which operated in Britain in the 1950s.
Treachery
Title | Treachery PDF eBook |
Author | Chapman Pincher |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 705 |
Release | 2009-07-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1588368599 |
From noted intelligence authority and author Chapman Pincher comes an utterly riveting book that reveals in startling detail sixty years of Soviet spying against Great Britain and the United States. Using a huge cache of recently released documents and exclusive interviews, Pincher makes a compelling new case that–as he has long believed–the head of Britain’s own counterintelligence and security agency was himself a double agent, acting to undermine and imperil the U.K. and America. Written with the power of a heart-pounding thriller, Treachery pulls the mask from intelligence leader Roger Hollis. As a result, years of traitorous action and inaction on his watch come tumbling down. Pincher reveals Hollis’s early years, when he was schooled at Oxford, which “educated” many agents, and worked in 1930s Shanghai, a hotbed of soon-to-be spies and Soviet recruiters. Hired by MI5–at a time when there was virtually no vetting of employees–he was a gray presence who rose in the ranks over twenty-seven years while, Pincher suspects, he was allowing the most notorious Soviet spies of the century to flourish. Myriad fascinating case histories are portrayed here, including that of Lt. Igor Gouzenko, a Red Army cipher clerk who said cryptically in 1945 that there was a mole in MI5 with access to important files. Pincher also provides exciting new perspectives on the most infamous operatives of our time, including Kim Philby and Klaus Fuchs. Perhaps most explosively, Pincher posits that long after Hollis stepped down, a cover-up was perpetrated at the highest levels, and that Margaret Thatcher was induced to mislead Parliament to prevent the truth from coming out. An essential volume for a world potentially facing a new cold war as Russia dangerously flexes its military and espionage muscles once again, Treachery warns us to protect our society and institutions from enemy infiltration in the future. This is a revelatory work that puts twentieth-century politics and war into stunning new relief.
Tea & Treachery
Title | Tea & Treachery PDF eBook |
Author | Vicki Delany |
Publisher | Kensington Cozies |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2020-07-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1496725085 |
In this charming new cozy mystery series from national bestselling author Vicki Delany, a New York City expat-turned-Cape Cod tea shop owner must solve the murder of a local real estate developer to help her feisty grandmother out of a jam . . . As the proud proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a traditional English tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Lily Roberts has her hands full, often literally. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the grand old Victorian B & B adjacent to Lily’s tea shop. But an aggressive real estate developer, Jack Ford, is pushing hard to rezone nearby land, with an eye toward building a sprawling golf resort, which would drive Rose and Lily out of business. Tempers are already steaming, but things really get sticky when Ford is found dead at the foot of Rose’s property and the police think she had something to do with his dramatic demise. So Lily starts her own investigation and discovers Ford’s been brewing bad blood all over town. Now, it’s down to Lily to stir up some clues, sift through the suspects, and uncover the real killer before Rose is left holding the tea bag. “A satisfying cozy with a beautifully described setting and a cast of charming, small-town characters. Share this new series with fans of Laura Childs’ Tea Shop mysteries.” —Booklist
The Supreme Fictions of John Banville
Title | The Supreme Fictions of John Banville PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph McMinn |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780719056987 |
This work offers a critical commentary on the range of John Banville's fiction, including the plays, and views that fiction in the contexts of contemporary critical theory, particularly those of postmodernism and feminism. It argues that Banville's work is deeply influenced by romantic and modernist mythologies of the creative imagination, especially those expressed by Coleridge and Wallace Stevens. Banville's interest in systems of knowledge and forms of representation is a major issue in the study, and McMinn investigates his use of paintings as metaphors.
Stravaganza
Title | Stravaganza PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Hoffman |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2005-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1582349827 |
When she purchases a tiny figurine of a winged horse, Georgia's life is greatly altered as this talisman has the power to take her back to different periods in time and away from the chaos in which she lives, such as the land of Remora where the excitement of the Stellata, the annual horse race, has brought the city to life. Reprint.
Anthony Blunt
Title | Anthony Blunt PDF eBook |
Author | Miranda Carter |
Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780374105310 |
Chronicles the life of art historian Sir Anthony Blunt, exploring his private and public personas and how he used his connections within English high society to work as a Soviet spy until he was exposed by Margaret Thatcher in 1979.