Together with Elliott and Angleton he stood on the front lines of the Cold War, holding Communism at bay. Philby was a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. Who was Kim Philby? Those closest to him-like his fellow MI6 officer and best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, and the CIA’s head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton-knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable patriot. Wodehouse.”-Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review “ reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John le Carré, leavened with a dollop of P. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” ( San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle.
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