The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935-90 - Softcover

(THE BOOK THE ESTABLISHMENT TRIED TO STOP - THE DEFINITIVE INSIDE STORY OF BRITAIN'S GREATEST SPYMASTER Sir Dick White, former head of MI5 and MI6 was Britain's most respected and experienced intelligence chief for over thirty-five years. Serving under nine Prime Ministers, he played a crucial role in every major crisis in Britain's military and political affairs. Even in retirement, his advice was eagerly sought by Downing Street and Whitehall. He was the perfect English spy. Now. for the first time, the story of MI5 and MI6 is told from the inside, from the top. With astonishing new insights into Britain's most fiercely guarded secrets of the last fifty years. Based on an unprecedented eleven years of interviews with Tom Bower and drawing on White's unique contacts with American and Russian intelligence officers, this disturbing and meticulously researched book has surprised even Britain's most experienced intelligence chiefs, 'An impeccably balanced biography' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating' Spectator)