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Fascinating biography … Hemming has done a superb job – Ben Macintyre * The Times, ‘Book of the Week’ *Excellent biography… The author has done a terrific job of unscrambling Knight’s muddled life * The Sunday Times Jaw-droppingly revelatory biography. **** * Mail on Sunday *‘Compelling new biography… Hemming has done a wonderful espionage job of his own, scouring obscure files to bring long-hidden agents and their exploits to light. It is also a gripping portrait of an era, now long gone, when the establishment could accommodate such extravagant oddness. * Daily Telegraph *Henry Hemming has found a peach of a subject… Full of new material, fresh interpretations and uncompromising integrity… He has managed the great feat of producing a rattling good read that is also a major piece of revisionist history – Richard Davenport-Hines * Wall Street Journal *Hemming has written a very readable, thoughtful and comprehensive account – Alan Judd * Literary Review *I raced through Henry Hemming’s book, constantly having to remind myself that it wasn’t a work of fiction. It really has everything you’d want from a great espionage story: incredible agents risking their lives; the highest possible stakes, with the safety of the world hanging in the balance; and at its heart a complicated, mercurial spy master in Maxwell Knight spinning an ever more intricate web. – Matt Charman, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of ‘Bridge of Spies’A major new biography * Mail on Sunday *Engaging and suspenseful * Financial Times *Lively contribution to a maverick literature * The Observer *

Henry Hemming is the author of five works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times bestseller M, the Dolman Travel Award-shortlisted Misadventure in the Middle East and Churchill’s Iceman, a New York Times bestseller. He has written for the Economist, The Sunday Times, FT Magazine and the Washington Post, among many others. He lives in London with his two children.