Perfect English Spy

Perfect English Spy by Bower, Tom. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780749323325.

(THE BOOK THE ESTABLISHMENT TRIED TO STOP - THE DEFINITIVE INSIDE STORY OF BRITAINS GREATEST SPYMASTER Sir Dick White, former head of MI5 and MI6 was Britains 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 Britains 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 Britains most fiercely guarded secrets of the last fifty years. Based on an unprecedented eleven years of interviews with Tom Bower and drawing on Whites unique contacts with American and Russian intelligence officers, this disturbing and meticulously researched book has surprised even Britains most experienced intelligence chiefs, An impeccably balanced biography Daily Telegraph Fascinating Spectator)