My Family And Other Spies

Pre-order this unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage .
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.'"Did you know him?" a priest asked me when I first visited my father's impressive marble tomb in Bosnia.I gave an honest answer - "No, I can't say I really knew him at all".It was a view shared by the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service's anti-Soviet operations.
"I don't suppose we'll ever really know the truth about J.B.
Wood?" he told me.
But he thought I had a better chance of finding out than most.After all, most of my family had at one time or another been with SIS, my mother one of only a handful of female agents to have operated behind the lines in post-war Berlin.
I had grown up within the perimeter of a specialist SIS training camp, surrounded by some of the most senior - and colourful - characters in the Service's history.So began a personal, insider's investigation into the life - or lives - of one of SIS's more unlikely, if highly regarded, officers.
And, in an admittedly crowded field, one of its most duplicitous .
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.'Pre-order this unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage .
.
.‘”Did you know him?” a priest asked me when I first visited my father’s impressive marble tomb in Bosnia.I gave an honest answer – “No, I can’t say I really knew him at all”.It was a view shared by the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service’s anti-Soviet operations.
“I don’t suppose we’ll ever really know the truth about J.B.
Wood?” he told me.
But he thought I had a better chance of finding out than most.After all, most of my family had at one time or another been with SIS, my mother one of only a handful of female agents to have operated behind the lines in post-war Berlin.
I had grown up within the perimeter of a specialist SIS training camp, surrounded by some of the most senior - and colourful - characters in the Service’s history.So began a personal, insider’s investigation into the life - or lives - of one of SIS''s more unlikely, if highly regarded, officers.
And, in an admittedly crowded field, one of its most duplicitous .
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