A Spy Named Orphan The Enigma of Donald Maclean

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Publisher's Synopsis

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy…

Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him. Moments before he was unmasked, Maclean escaped to Moscow.

Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, A Spy Named Orphan now tells this story for the first time in full, revealing the character and devastating impact of perhaps the most dangerous Soviet agent of the twentieth century.

'Superb'
William Boyd

'Fascinating… An exceptional story of espionage and betrayal, thrillingly told'
Philippe Sands

'A cracking story… Impressively researched'
Sunday Times

'Philipps makes the story and the slow uncovering of [Maclean's] treachery a gripping narrative'
Alan Bennett

About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9781784703578
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 327.12092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 480
Weight: 336g
Height: 197mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 30mm