Dead Doubles

The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings

Dead Doubles
Trevor Barnes
RRP:
NZ$ 37.99
Our Price:
NZ$ 30.39
Paperback
h201 x 135mm - 352pg
14 Sep 2021
International import eta 7-19 days
9780062857002
Out Of Stock
Currently no stock in-store, stock is sourced to your order
THE PORTLAND SPY RING was one of the most infamous espionage cases from the Cold War. People the world over were shocked when its exposure revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB ' illegals' - spies operating under false identities stolen from the dead. The CIA' s revelation to MI5 in 1960 that a KGB agent was stealing crucial secrets from the world-leading submarine research base at Portland in Dorset looked initially like a dangerous but contained lapse of security by a British man and his mistress. But the couple were tailed by MI5 ' watchers' to a covert meeting with a Canadian businessman, Gordon Lonsdale. The unsuspecting Lonsdale in turn led MI5' s spycatchers to an innocent-looking couple in suburban Ruislip called the Krogers. But within weeks the CIA rang the alarm - their critical source of intelligence was to defect within hours - and MI5 was forced to act immediately. The Krogers were exposed as two of the most important Russian ' illegals' ever, whom the Americans had been hunting for years. And Lonsdale was no Canadian, but a senior KGB controller. This astonishing but true story of MI5' s spyhunt is straight from the world of John le Carre and is told here for the first time using hitherto secret MI5 and FBI files, private family archives and original interviews. Its tentacles stretch around the world - from America, to the USSR, Canada, New Zealand, Europe and the UK. DEAD DOUBLES is a gripping episode of Cold War history, and a case that fully justified the West' s paranoia about infiltration and treachery.
The definitive account of the famous Portland Spies - fascinating, detailed and completely gripping. - Richard J Aldrich, author GCHQI read DEAD DOUBLES with admiration. . . fascinating and meticulous. . . Using all available American, British and Russian sources, Trevor Barnes has produced a remarkable book. - Harvey Klehr, co-author Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in AmericaA highly readable account of a classic Cold War MI5 investigation. Assiduously researched and a real page-turner - Nigel West, author of MI5 and The IllegalsExcellent and riveting, with a cast of characters as engaging as in any novel. Former KGB officer Vladimir Putin' s modern-day Russia employs the same espionage methods now against the West. The themes of Dead Doubles - deception, betrayal, blackmail, chemical and biological weapons, atomic secrets, international rivalry - are as topical today as in the 1960s. - John Sipher, Former Head, CIA Russian Operations, and CIA Station Chief in Asia and EuropeA gripping and brilliantly researched history of the rise and fall of the Portland Spy Ring, which reveals much about the operations and personnel of Russian, British and American intelligence at the height of the Cold War. - Christopher Andrew, author of Defence of the Realm and The Secret WorldAn enthralling account of one of the last great spy mysteries of the 20th Century - I loved it. - John Preston, author of A Very English ScandalDead Doubles will keep readers on the edge of their seats, turning its pages like a delicious spy novel. Its pace and wide scope of research take us into a hidden corner of Cold War England in the early 1960s. - Katherine Sibley, author of First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy and Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold WarReads like a le Carre thriller - only true. Rich in detail. A must read. - Ray Batvinis, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent of Counterintelligence and author of Hoover' s Secret War Against Axis Spies
TREVOR BARNES studied espionage in 1920s Britain and the CIA as a history student at the University of Cambridge and as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. His pioneering research was published in the Historical Journal. Subsequently he worked as a BBC radio and TV senior journalist on programmes including Radio 4' s Today and BBC Two' s Newsnight, and has written for, among others, The Times, The Observer, The Evening Standard and The Boston Globe. He is the author of three crime novels and also researched and wrote Trial at Torun, a BBC radio play about the trial in Poland of a secret-service murder case. He lives in West London.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780062857002
Published: 14 Sep 2021
Published In:
Imprint: Harper Paperbacks
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
Height: 201mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 295g
Pages: 352

In stock - for items in stock we aim to dispatch the next business day. For delivery in NZ allow 2-5 business days, with rural taking a wee bit longer.

Locally sourced in NZ - stock comes from a NZ supplier with an approximate delivery of 7-15 business days.

International Imports - stock is imported into NZ, depending on air or sea shipping option from the international supplier stock can take 10-30 working days to arrive into NZ. 

Pre-order Titles - delivery will vary depending on where the title is published, if local stock is available in NZ then 5-7 business days, for international imports it can be 10-30 business days. In all cases we will access the quickest supply option.

Delivery Packaging - we ship all items in cardboard sleeves or by box with either packing paper or corn starch chips. (We avoid using plastics bubble bags)

Tracking - Orders are delivered by track and trace courier and are fully insured, tracking information will be sent by email once dispatched.

View our full Order & Delivery information