Including new evidence from key figures, Love and Deception is the result of 20 years of research into one of the Cold War's most mysterious episodes.
'I am always gripped by the Philby story, and James Hanning succeeds in putting new flesh on this fascinating period in his double life. Maximum betrayal, maximum stress, maximum misbehaviour, maximum booze - I thoroughly recommend losing yourself in lives which I trust are far more terrifyingly rackety than your own' - Marina Hyde
If ever there was a cautionary tale about the true costs of male privilege in the higher echelons of the British establishment - this is it. Hanning's masterful research lays bare the extraordinary hypocrisy that enabled Kim Philby to lie and trick his way through life.
