The Spy's Bedside Book - Hardcover

Greene, Graham; Greene, Hugh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091920612 ISBN 13: 9780091920616

Publisher: Hutchinson, 2007

Synopsis

On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's "The Spy's Bedside Book" provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence. This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Belle Boyd, Walter Schellenberg, Sir Paul Dukes and Vladimir Petrov, and from the golden age of mystery and suspense, William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim.There are also some unexpected figures: William Blake, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars. How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? Why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia? Answers to these questions and much more can be found in this thrilling collection, which will enthral readers once again with its tales of espionage from a bygone era.

About this title

Product Description:

Folio Society edition

Review:

"I fear England will be infested with alien agents who have learned their trade from this revealing and mischievous compilation."-"The Evening News"

About this edition

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0091920612
• ISBN 13: 9780091920616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272