If you have read many of my reviews, you know that one of my primary complaints about a majority of non-fiction books is that they are long magazine articles that the author has padded into a "book" by saying the same thing over and over again. This book is a refreshing change. The author fills...
Fascinating. Non-fiction. The story of Kim Philby, an English spy for the Soviet Union. Recruited along with several of his friends from Cambridge. Spied for the Soviet Union from 1939 until 1963 and then escaped to Moscow where he lived out the remainder of his life. During his spying years...
When I read a review of this in 1998 I immediately put it on my wish list. As a Sherlock Holmes fan how could I not want to read about the man that was possibly the model for Morriarty? (Quick wikipedia link for Worth for those who are impatient.) And so the book sat in my wish list, but didn't g...