Alistair Wood

My Family and Other Spies (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Pre-order this unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage . . .

'"Did you know him?" a priest asked me when I first visited my father's impressive marble tomb in Bosnia.
I gave an honest answer - "No, I can't say I really knew him at all".
It was a view shared by the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service's anti-Soviet operations. "I don't suppose we'll ever really know the truth about J.B. Wood?" he told me. But he thought I had a better chance of finding out than most.

After all, most of my family had at one time or another been with SIS, my mother one of only a handful of female agents to have operated behind the lines in post-war Berlin. I had grown up within the perimeter of a specialist SIS training camp, surrounded by some of the most senior - and colourful - characters in the Service's history.

So began a personal, insider's investigation into the life - or lives - of one of SIS's more unlikely, if highly regarded, officers. And, in an admittedly crowded field, one of its most duplicitous . . .'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405971997
• Artikelnr.: 72248546

Autorenporträt

As one of the only members of his family not to have been employed by the Secret Intelligence Service, Alistair Wood has enjoyed a reassuringly respectable (and successful) career in advertising, working in the UK, US, Korea, and South-East Asia. He lives in London.