Ben Macintyre, Author . Harmony $25.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-307-35340-5
London Times
associate editor Macintyre (The Man Who Would Be King
) adroitly dissects the enigmatic World War II British double agent Eddie Chapman in this intriguing and balanced biography. Giving “little thought” to the morality of...
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Ben Macintyre, Author . Harmony $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0307-45327-3
London Times
writer-at-large Macintyre (Agent Zigzag
) offers a solid and entertaining updating of WWII’s best-known “human intelligence” operation. In 1943, British intelligence conceived “a spectacular con trick” to...
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Ben Macintyre. Crown, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-307-88875-4
“Any method of seeking the truth can also be used to plant a lie.” Therein lies the root of the brilliantly dangerous Allied plan (which MI5 called Double Cross)—recounted by Macintyre with the same skill and suspense he displayed in Operation...
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Ben Macintyre. Crown, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8041-3663-1
In this engaging real-life spy story, Macintyre (Double Cross) pulls back the curtain on the life and exploits of Kim Philby, who served for decades in Britain’s intelligence community while secretly working as a Soviet double agent. Macintyre...
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Ben Macintyre. Crown, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-101-90416-9
Macintyre (A Spy Among Friends), who specializes in writing about espionage and clandestine operations, describes the founding and operations of the British Army’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment during WWII, in this well-written and...
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Ben Macintyre. Crown, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-101-90419-0
Macintyre (Rogue Heroes) recounts the exploits of Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB agent turned British spy responsible for “the single largest ‘operational download’ in MI6 history,” in this captivating espionage tale. Building on in-depth interviews and...
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Ben Macintyre. Crown, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-13630-0
Macintyre (The Spy and the Traitor) recounts the life and career of Soviet intelligence officer Ursula Kuczynski (1907–2000) in this fascinating history. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Germany, Kuczynski was an active communist by the...
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Ben Macintyre. Crown, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-13633-1
In this riveting history of Nazi Germany’s most notorious POW camp, bestseller Macintyre (Agent Sonya) spotlights the indomitable will and creativity of the inmates who tried to escape from it. Colditz, a “grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop,”...
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Ben Macintyre, read by John Lee, Random House Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.5 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-3077-3569-0
Attain a corpse, load it with forged secret documents, and drop it off the coast of Spain where Nazi spies would be certain to discover it. These were the bare-bone essentials of one of the most important yet largely unknown Allied missions of WWII,
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Ben Macintyre, read by John Lee. Random House Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-307-99043-3
It would be hard to imagine any narrator doing a better job with the rich material contained in this true-life thriller than John Lee does in this audio edition. Macintyre is a master of the art of digesting massive amounts of material and winnowing
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Ben Macintyre, read by John Lee. Random House Audio, , unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-553-39788-8
Macintyre’s latest biography chronicles the adventures of British intelligence officer Kim Philby, who secretly spied for the Soviet Union throughout most of his career. These events have inspired a host of fictional espionage thrillers, but Macinty
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Ben Macintyre, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-12985-9
Innumerable soldiers were stranded behind enemy lines in World War I—some injured, some lost, some sole survivors of decimated regiments. Macintyre (The Napoleon of Crime) has uncovered the story of a small band of English soldiers who, in...
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Ben Macintyre, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-20178-4
While many know Sean Connery as "The Man Who Would Be King," few know 19th-century maverick Josiah Harlan, whose adventures probably inspired John Huston's version of Kipling's tale. But the research of British journalist Macintyre (T
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Ben Macintyre, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-15759-3
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, the bigoted, imperious sister of the famous philosopher, founded a ``racially pure'' colony in Paraguay together with her husband, anti-Semitic agitator Bernhard Forster, and a band of fair-skinned fellow Germans. In...
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Ben Macintyre. Crown, $32 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-72809-3
Nerve-wracking menace, unlikely sympathies, and a daring rescue mark this rousing saga of a notorious terrorist incident. Bestseller Macintyre (Agent Sonya) revisits the May 1980 occupation of the Iranian embassy in London by six Iranian Arab...
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