MI6, bring history to life. A solid reference work and an exciting read, Spies offers a uniquely intimate look into the shadowy world of espionage.

Includes index.

Fritz Kauders: Triumph of the Schieber -- H.A.R. Philby: The Mole's Mole -- Anthony Blunt: "The Pope Wants You!" -- Oleg Penkovsky: Soldier for Peace -- George Blake: The Manchurian Candidate -- Nikolai and Nadjeda Skoblin: Death and the Kursk Nightingale -- Israel Beer: The Man Who Never Was -- Vladimir I. Vetrov: The Murder of Line X -- Afansy M. Shorikhov: Flight of the Football Fan -- Igor Gouzenko: The First Man -- Anatoli Golitsin: Even a Paranoid Has Enemies -- Whittaker Chambers: The Man with Two Faces -- Leiba Domb: The Red Orchestra -- Wilhelm Wassmuss: The German Lawrence -- Ian Fleming: Art Imitates Life -- Dusko Popov: The Real James Bond -- K W. Winterbotham: The Spy in the Sky -- Amy Thorpe Pack: The Siren Spy -- Richard Sorge: The Greatest of Them All -- Ruth Kuczynski: The Radio in the Teddy Bear -- Herbert Yardley: The American Black Chamber -- Eric Erickson: The Counterfeit Traitor -- Elsbeth Schragmueller: Fraulein Doktor -- Margareta Zelle: Mata Hari, The Eye of Dawn -- Wolfgang Lotz, Eliyahu Cohen: The Eyes of Israel -- Larry Wu-Tai Chin: The Spy in the Casino -- Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb -- Alfred Redl: Feasting with Panthers -- K'ang Sheng, Tai Li: Terror in China -- Markus Wolf: The Hour of Karla -- William Stephenson: The Saga of Intrepid -- Claude Dansey: The King of Z -- Feliks Dzerzhinsky, Jan Berzin: Midnight in Lubyanka -- Kenji Doihara: The Snake in the Basket -- Laventri Beria: "Give Me a Man" -- Reinhard Heydrich: A Terrible Secret -- Gabor Peter: The Hunchback of Budapest -- Heinrich Mueller: A Nazi in Moscow -- Rudolf Roessler: The Enigma of Lucy -- Vitali Yurchenko: The Spy Who Changed His Mind -- Nicolai F. Artamanov: The Double Agent Who Wasn't -- Ernest Hemingway: Papa's Crook Factory -- Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana -- Giovanni Montini: The Pope as Spy -- W. Somerset Maugham: Our Man in Petrograd.