Kim Philby

In England, MW had a comfortable middle-class upbringing. Her godfather was crime reformer Lord Longford (father of historian and novelist Antonia Fraser ). A writer, Violet Trefusis , was her godmother and another novelist, Lawrence Durrell

It was also the greatest of all his commercial successes, holding its place for six months on the New York Times bestseller list. Greene had begun writing it a decade earlier, but put it aside...

Back in England, Greene continued work for the Iberian department of the Secret Intelligence Service for most of the war, monitoring espionage which was carried out in Gibraltar, Lisbon, Madrid, and Tangier—all cities which were...

In this story he returns for his setting to London, to the world of espionage which he had known from the inside during World War Two. Although the plot features an English double agent...