But he was secretly betraying them both: He was working for the Russians the entire time.Įvery word uttered in confidence to Philby made its way to Moscow, sinking almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years and costing hundreds of lives. Together with Elliott and Angleton he stood on the front lines of the Cold War, holding Communism at bay. Philby was a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. Who was Kim Philby? Those closest to him-like his fellow MI6 officer and best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, and the CIA's head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton-knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable patriot. Wodehouse."-Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review " reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John le Carré, leavened with a dollop of P. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War's most infamous spy, from the "master storyteller" ( San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle.
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