A Spy Among Friends is the true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War's most infamous spy, written by Ben Macintyre, author of Prisoners of the Castle. Philby rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. His closest friends, MI6 officer Nicholas Elliott and the CIA's head of counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton, knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable patriot. In secret, he was working for the Russians the entire time.
The book follows how Philby's betrayal sank almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years and cost hundreds of lives. It explains how he was finally exposed and what happened after he was unmasked. It is based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files.
The book is a portrait of a Cold War spy and the countrymen who remained willfully blind to his treachery. It is a New York Times bestseller and has been adapted as an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin.
- Format
- Paperback
- Author
- Ben Macintyre
- Genre
- True story, Cold War espionage
- Subject
- Kim Philby, Nicholas Elliott, James Jesus Angleton
- Adaptation
- MGM+ series with Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, Anna Maxwell Martin
