It is a story worthy of le Carre --but it is all true. Yuri Modin's account is unique. For the first time ever, the KGB minder of the most notorious double agents of the 20th century reveals the details of their lives and the roles they played in the secret history and politics of our time.

From bestselling author Ben Macintyre, the true untold story of history's most famous traitor

Modin reveals previously unknown details about how the Cambridge spies passed on their information and what they provided to the Soviet secret service. In vivid descriptions based on firsthand knowledge, he reveals how Burgess and MacLean made their spectacular escape to Moscow, the games Melinda MacLean played with both sides before defecting with her children. What pushed Philby to crack in 1983 and flee to Moscow as well, and how the Cambridge spies fared in the U.S.S.R. A real-life John Le Carre Thriller, this book provides a fascinating new view into one of the cold war's hottest chapters.

Kim Philby has been called "one of the most remarkable double-agents to have been exposed in our time". Harry St. John Bridger Philby, Kim Philby's father and mentor, was one of the most intriguing intellectuals and adventurers of our time, a manipulator who played a key role in establishing the modern Middle East. In this dual biography, Anthony Cave Brown, tells the extraordinary story of two men whose lives were directly opposed to the establishment into which they were born and for which they were bred. St. John, the brilliant Arabist, became a Moslem and political adviser to King Ibn Saud. He was the middleman in the U.S. acquisition of the Saudi oil concession, called by the State Department "the greatest commercial prize in the history of the planet". And as St. John turned to Mecca, Kim turned to the Kremlin, serving as a secret agent against the Anglo-American intelligence services for fifty-three years.

Reveals previously unknown details about how the Cambridge spies passed on their information & what they provided to the Soviet Secret Service. In vivid descriptions based on firsthand knowledge, he reveals how Burgess & Maclean made their spectacular escape to Moscow, the games Melinda Maclean played with both sides before defecting with her children, what pushed Philby to crack in 1963 & flee to Moscow as well, & how the Cambridge spies fared in the U.S.S.R. A real life John Le Carre thriller, this book provides a fascinating new view into one of the cold war's hottest chapters. "Expands our understanding of the strange world of espionage."