My family and other spies

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My family and other spies

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Author :   Alistair Wood
Publisher :   Michael Joseph
Published :   08/05/2025
ISBN :   9780241726358
Format :   Hardback
Pages :   384
Size (mm) :   242x163x34
Weight (g) :   594

All families have secrets. But Alistair Wood's family have more than most. He grew up within the four (very high) walls of SIS's specialist training camp, surrounded by the most senior and colourful characters in the Service's history. His mother was... Read more
 
All families have secrets. But Alistair Wood's family have more than most. He grew up within the four (very high) walls of SIS's specialist training camp, surrounded by the most senior and colourful characters in the Service's history. His mother was one of only a handful of female agents to have operated behind enemy lines in Berlin. And his father, an ostensibly heroic humanitarian who died 'in the field' in Bosnia at 82, had in fact led a highly secret double life since his summary (and still classified) expulsion from the Service forty years earlier.