Henry Hemming. Public Affairs, $26.99 (544p) ISBN 978-1-61039-577-9
Geoffrey Pyke, described in his 1948 Times of London obituary as “one of the most original if unrecognized figures of the present century,” always seemed to find himself in the right place at the right time, as Hemming (Abdulnasser Gharem) documents
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Henry Hemming. PublicAffairs, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-61039-684-4
British popular historian and biographer Hemming (The Ingenious Mr. Pike) revisits the life of Maxwell Knight in the first biography of the 20th century’s leading MI5 spymaster. Knight was an eccentric figure who “possessed an unparalleled ability...
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Henry Hemming. Public Affairs, , $28 ISBN 978-1-5417-4214-7
Hemming (Agent M) delivers a lucid, fast-paced account of England’s secret scheme to draw America into WWII. Shortly after the June 1940 Dunkirk evacuation, Canadian-born MI6 agent Bill Stephenson launched the “largest state-sponsored influence...
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Henry Hemming. PublicAffairs, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-1-541-70318-6
Historian Hemming (Agents of Influence) begins his riveting account of espionage during the Troubles with the 1986 discovery of the dead body of Frank Hegarty, a spy for the British embedded in the Irish Republican Army, in a farmer’s field in rural
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