The Spy's Bedside Book

I fear England will be infested with alien agents who have learned their trade from this revealing and mischievous compilation * The Evening News (London) *[A] marvellous anthology of spy stories – Jeremy Lewis * The Oldie *This charming 1957 curiosity, a compendium of espionage vignettes, will bring out the spy in everyone * Evening Standard *

Graham Greene (Author)Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.Hugh Greene (Author)Graham Greene was born in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford he published his first book of verse. He continued to write throughout his lifetime, and served with the Secret Intelligence Service during the Second World War. He died in 1991.Hugh Greene was born in 1910. He came to prominence as a journalist when he became a chief correspondent in Nazi Berlin. During the Second World War he served in the RAF. He went on to join the BBC and was made Director-General in 1960. He died in 1987.

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