The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader

A Compendium of Spy Writing

Michael Smith

• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781785904813
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785905148
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Intelligence & Espionage
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where some of the greatest spy stories ever told meet the genuine agent records and instructions that altered history.Ian Fleming's genre-defining genius and John le Carré's iconic George Smiley are interspersed with real-life stories of derring-do inside Bolshevik Russia. Literary classics by Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham appear next to never-before-published reports from two of the Cambridge spies.Fully updated with tales of agent-running from the first female Director-General of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, and Andy McNab's chilling account of a top-secret mission deep inside IRA territory, this compelling anthology is proof that truth really can be stranger than fiction.With expert commentary, former intelligence officer Michael Smith takes us on a fascinating journey inside the mysterious world of British intelligence. The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader is a must-read for every espionage enthusiast and aspiring agent.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Historical Note
• THE SECRET AGENT —Joseph Conrad
• SPIES OF THE KAISER —William Le Queux
• THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS —Erskine Childers
• TRACKING GERMAN SPIES IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR —Basil Thomson
• MY ADVENTURES AS A SPY —Robert Baden-Powell
• THE MAN WHO WAS M —William Melville
• GREENMANTLE —John Buchan
• STRANGE INTELLIGENCE —H. C. Bywater & H. C. Ferraby
• MATA HARI AND OTHER FEMALE AGENTS —Basil Thomson
• BOMBING TARGETS IN BRUGES —Pierre-Marie Cavrois O’Caffrey
• SPREADING THE SPY NET —Henry Landau
• THE GERMAN LOSSES IN THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND —Agent R16 (Karl Krüger)
• ASHENDEN —W. Somerset Maugham
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR AGENTS GOING TO GERMANY
• MY FIRST MEETING WITH C —Compton Mackenzie
• THE SECRET AGENT’S INSTRUCTIONS
• TALES OF AEGEAN INTRIGUE —J. C. Lawson
• A RATHER BAD MOMENT —Norman Dewhurst
• GO SPY THE LAND —George Hill
• THE LOOMING THREAT OF RASPUTIN —J. D. Scale
• THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL OF PETROGRAD —Paul Dukes & John Merrett
• RED DUSK AND THE MORROW —Paul Dukes
• SAFE HOUSE ON THE CHEREMETEFF PEREULOK —Sidney Reilly
• THE SPY WHO SAVED 10,000 JEWS —Hubert Pollack
• SIDNEY COTTON: THE MI6 PIONEER OF PHOTO-RECONNAISSANCE —John Godfrey
• MI9 AND COLDITZ —M. R. D. Foot & J. M. Langley
• LITTLE CYCLONE: THE GIRL WHO STARTED THE COMET LINE —Airey Neave
• A POLISH SPY IN ALGIERS —Mieczyslaw Zygfryd Slowikowski
• THEY FOUGHT ALONE —Maurice Buckmaster
• A BRITISH SECRET AGENT WITH THE RESISTANCE —Richard Heslop
• BLETCHLEY PARK AND THE D-DAY DECEPTION —Michael Smith
• GARBO: THE STAR OF THE DOUBLE CROSS SYSTEM —Juan Pujol Garcia
• THE RECRUITMENT OF DOUBLE AGENT TREASURE —Kenneth Benton
• THE TORTURE OF THE WHITE RABBIT —Tommy Yeo-Thomas
• PREPARING THE GROUND FOR JAMES BOND —Ian Fleming
• THE SAD CASE OF JAN MAŠEK —Bob Steers
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GEORGE SMILEY —John le Carré
• WHEN PHILBY MET HOLLIS —Kim Philby
• KIM PHILBY: THE UNKNOWN STORY OF THE KGB’S MASTER-SPY —Tim Milne
• THE HUMAN FACTOR —Graham Greene
• GREAT OPPORTUNITIES OPEN UP —Guy Burgess
• THE WATCHERS’ HANDBOOK —Harry Hunter
• THE ART OF AGENT-RUNNING —Stella Rimington
• CLOSE TARGET RECONNAISSANCE —Andy McNab
• SLINGSHOT —Matthew Dunn
• UNCOMMON ENEMY —Alan Judd
• About the Editor
• Copyright
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