Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone

Stewart Purvis,Jeff Hulbert

Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 April 2016
Pages
480
ISBN
9781849549134

Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone

Stewart Purvis,Jeff Hulbert

Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was the supreme networker of his age. His contacts provided him with so many hard facts and so much insider gossip that his Moscow masters found it difficult to keep up with the flow of material. Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert, who obtained the first recording of Burgess’s voice from FBI files, have now discovered many more facts about Burgess and his contacts from previously secret sources. This biography of Burgess considers how this scruffy, smelly, sexually promiscuous, conspicuous drunk was such a successful Soviet spy that he was never challenged by Britain’s spy-catchers. It culminates in new revelations about his final, lonely days in Moscow as ‘the spy who knew nobody’.

A truly extraordinary tale of the enigma that was Guy Burgess
Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards

This great review appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times

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