Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6

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Title of ebook: Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6
ISBN: 9781429919869
parent-ISBN: 9780312379988
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Published: 03-2009
Released online for download: 03-17-2009
Author of eBook: Thomas, Gordon

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Secret Wars

One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6

Chapter One

Her Majesty's Secret Agent

On a morning in mid-March 2007, a dark blue car with a Scotland Yard Special Branch driver at the wheel made its way through the west suburbs of London toward the city center. The single passenger in the backseat, Sir John McLeod Scarlett, looked intimidating, the embodiment of the British establishment, a banker, perhaps, or the chairman of a large company. His customized suit, tailored by Gieves & Hawkes, a handsewn shirt with double cuffs and his Travellers Club tie enhanced the impression.

Scarlett was Her Majesty's Secret Agent, a spymaster who had long understood that the chessboard of intelligence gathering has no rules. Now fifty-nine years old, he still had the cultivated drawl from a prep school education (Epsom College) and three years at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied history before joining MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, entering a world where deception and b ... read full excerpt from: Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6 ebook

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