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"Reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John Le Carré, leavened with a dollop of P.G. Wodehouse . . . [Macintyre] takes a fresh look at the grandest espionage drama of our era."--New York Times Book Review     Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's thrillingly ambitious A Spy Among Friends tackles the greatest spy story of all: the rise and fall of Kim Philby, MI6's Cambridge-bred golden boy who used his perch high in the intelligence world to betray friend and country to the Soviet Union for over two decades. In Macintyre's telling, Philby's story is not a tale of one spy, but of three: the story of his complex friendships with fellow Englishman operative Nicholas Elliott and with the American James Jesus Angleton, who became one of the most powerful men in the CIA. These men came up together, shared the same background, went to the same schools and clubs, and served the same cause--or so Elliott and Angleton thought. In reality, Philby was channeling all of their confidences directly to his Soviet handlers, sinking almost every great Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies and obfuscations to protect his secret, Angleton and Elliott never abandoned him. When Philby's true master was finally revealed with his defection to Moscow in 1963, it would have profound and devastating consequences on these men who thought they knew him best, and the intelligence services they helped to build.      This remarkable story--now available as a paperback and told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, is Ben Macintyre's best book yet, and a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date presents the definitive telling of the most legendary spy story of the 20th century.         A Spy Among Friends, Ben Macintyre's thrillingly ambitious new book, tackles the greatest spy story of all: the rise and fall of Kim Philby, MI6's Cambridge-bred golden boy who used his perch high in the intelligence world to betray friend and country to the Soviet Union for over two decades. In Macintyre's telling, Philby's story is not a tale of one spy, but of three: the story of his complex friendships with fellow Englishman operative Nicholas Elliott and with the American James Jesus Angleton, who became one of the most powerful men in the CIA. These men came up together, shared the same background, went to the same schools and clubs, and served the same cause--or so Elliott and Angleton thought. In reality, Philby was channeling all of their confidences directly to his Soviet handlers, sinking almost every great Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies and obfuscations to protect his secret, Angleton and Elliott never abandoned him. When Philby's true master was finally revealed with his defection to Moscow in 1963, it would have profound and devastating consequences on these men who thought they knew him best, and the intelligence services they helped to build.      This remarkable story, told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, is Ben Macintyre's best book yet, and a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.

With guest appearances from Stevie Van Zandt, Debbie Harry, Genya Ravan, Cit ORiordan of The Pogues, Eddie Muoz of The Plimsouls, Kim Shattuck of The Muffs, Paul Collins, Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones, Speedie John Carlucci of The Fuzztones, Ben Vaughn, and more!

Contents: Going to School (Information), Morning (Poem), Kim Gets to School, Ben's Surprise, Frogs (Information), Chuggarum! (Poem), Skills Lesson, Animal Fun: The Little Red Hen (Play) Making a Set (Activity), The Clay House (Russinan Folk Tale), The Lost Jar, The Great Big Bear, The Big Race (Fable adapted from Aesop), Over in the flowers (Poem), Skills Lesson, New Things from Old: What Is It? (Information), Trees and Paper (Information), Paper Nests (Information), A Picture Book (Activity), Color Magic (Information), Skills Leson, New Friends: Robert, Who Is Often a Stranger to Himself (Poem), The New Boy in School, Betsy's Tomorrow, Happy, Scared, My Friend Pete, Pete Gets Mad at Me, Doing Something about it, Skills Lesson, The Worlds of Art: The Animal Art Show, Maria Martinez, Artist (Information), Mobiles (Activity), The Man Who Painted Birds (Information), For a Bird (Poem), Skills Lesson, I Have a Home, The Bremen Band (Play), Oh, I Have a Home (Poem), The Little Gray House (bonus Book), New Words.