A Spy Among Friends Audiobook by Ben Macintyre

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/27/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Spy Among Friends Subtitle: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Author: Ben Macintyre Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Length: 11 hrs Language: English Release date: 07-29-14 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1111 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Criminals Publisher's Summary: Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date offers a powerful new angle on the 20th century's greatest spy story. Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War - while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world. But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow - and not just Elliott's words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliott's unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned him - until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake. Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyre's best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling. Critic Reviews: "No one writes about deceit and subterfuge so dramatically, authoritatively or perceptively [as Ben Macintyre]. To read A Spy Among Friends is a bit like climbing aboard a runaway train in terms of speed and excitementexcept that Macintyre knows exactly where he is going and is in total control of his material." (The Daily Mail) "A Spy Among Friends, a classic spookfest, is also a brilliant reconciliation of history and entertainment An unputdownable postwar thriller whose every incredible detail is fact not fiction." (The Observer) "Macintyre's focus on friendship brings an intimacy to this book that is missing from the cardboard stereotypes that populate spy novels and conventional espionage histories I'm not a lover of spy novels, yet I adored this book." (The Times of London)