Philip Hensher

Kim Philby got away with it because he was posh

A review of A Spy Among Friends, by Ben Macintyre. The double agent's victims, unlike his family, were not the sort of people one bumped into at White's

Kim Philby at the press conference he called in 1955 to deny being the ‘Third Man’ [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]
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  • A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

    Ben Macintyre

    Bloomsbury, pp. 368

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