Acknowledgements

I am enormously grateful to the following people for their assistance and encouragement: Lucy Almond, Otto Bathurst, Lucinda Bredin, Camilla Campbell, Alex and Jonathan Capel, Henry Carpenter, Jolyon Connell, Jeremy O’Grady and all the staff at The Week, Marcus Cooper and Grahame Cook at BP, Ian Cumming, Leslie Daniels, Caroline Dawney and Jago Irwin at PFD, Sarah Day, Janine di Giovanni, Angus Graham-Campbell, Melissa Hanbury, Annabel Hardman, Rupert Harris, Ed Heathcoat-Amory, James Holland, Trevor Horwood, the late Mary Huffam, JJ Keith, Nicki Kennedy and Jessica Buckman at ILA, Jeremy Lewis, Nick Lockley, Tif Loehnis at Janklow & Nesbit, James Maby, Josephine Mackay, Jamie Maitland Hume, Rupert Morris, Kerin O’Connor, Charlie Oliver, Simon and Caroline Pilkington, Andrew Ramsay, Katharine Road, William and Mary Seymour, Simon Shaw, Christian Spurrier, Hilary Tagg, Martin Vander Weyer, Ralph Ward-Jackson, Joanna Weinberg, Rowland White and Tom Weldon at Michael Joseph and Angus Wolfe Murray.

For additional information about the secret history of British Intelligence after 1945, I relied on Tom Bower’s excellent biography of Sir Dick White, The Perfect English Spy. Pete Earley’s account of the Aldrich Ames affair, Confessions of a Spy, was just as helpful.