The Writer and the Traitor by Robert Verkaik review – divided loyalties

Sex, booze and subterfuge – the extraordinary friendship of Graham Greene and spy Kim Philby At the Café Royal in Regent Street in 1944 three intelligence officers bent over their plates while Europe held its breath. Outside, London braced for D-day. Inside, Graham Greene announced that he was resigning from MI6. Kim Philby, his chief in Section V, MI6’s counterespionage arm, blinked. Educated at Westminster, converted to communism at Cambridge and by then securely installed as Moscow’s man a...

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