Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets

Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents

At the dawn of the Cold War, the worldâ€™s most important intelligence agenciesâ€”the Soviet KGB, the American CIA, and the British MI6â€”appeared to have clear-cut roles and a sense of rising importance in their respective countries. But when Kim Philby, head of MI6â€™s Russian division and arguably the twenty-first centuryâ€™s greatest spy, was revealed to be a Russian mole along with British government heavyweights Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, everything in the Western intelligence world turned upside down.

Here is the true story of how the American James Bondâ€”the colorful, foulmouthed, pistol-packing, alcoholic ex-FBI agent William â€œKingâ€ Harveyâ€”put the finger on Philby; how James Jesus Angleton, the chain-smoking poet of Yale University and the CIAâ€™s supposed â€œmaster spyâ€ in charge of counterintelligence, began his descent into a paranoid wilderness of mirrors upon learning of family friend Kim Philbyâ€™s ultimate betrayal; and the devastating consequences of the loss of MI6 prestige and the CIAâ€™s subsequent self-defeating witch hunts.

Every revelation, every stranger-than-fiction twist and turn is all the more intriguing as truths become lies and unlikely scenarios are revealed as reality. With impeccable sourcing and the use of thousands of pages of declassified research, David C. Martinâ€™s Wilderness of Mirrors is widely recognized as a masterpiece of intelligence literature.
Country USA
Brand Skyhorse
Manufacturer Skyhorse
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781510722187
ReleaseDate 2018-09-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781510722187

Country	USA
Brand	Skyhorse
Manufacturer	Skyhorse
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781510722187
ReleaseDate	2018-09-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781510722187

Wilderness of Mirrors: Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets that Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents