Spy Masters

This collaborative anthology ranges across the history and literature of espionage, from Roman and Tudor intelligence to the Second World War, Cold War and contemporary security services. Its subjects include intelligence chiefs, resistance agents, double agents, Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie, Pearl Harbor and the changing relationship between Britain and the United States.

Ben Macintyre appears as an interview subject discussing Ursula Kuczynski, the Soviet agent known as Agent Sonya, rather than as the volume’s sole author. The collection combines historical articles, interviews and short fiction by multiple contributors, allowing different forms of espionage writing to address secrecy, loyalty and state power.