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From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the trunk avenues of London, they are the stories of the realtors on the front lines of English intelligence. And the truth is often more exceptional than fiction. MI6 has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in misconception since it was made a hundred years back. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been mainly defined by the imaginary worlds of Ian Fleming and John le Carré. Gordon Corera offers a unique and unprecedented insight into this key world and the reality that is behind the fiction. He tells the storyplot of how the key service has changed since the end of the Second World Battle and, by focusing on folks and the romantic relationships that lie in the centre of espionage, illustrates the danger, the play, the intrigue, and the moral ambiguities that include working for English intelligence. From your defining period of the early Cool War through to the modern day, MI6 has been subject to a dramatic change from a gung-ho, amateurish corporation to its modern, no less controversial, incarnation. Gordon Corera unveils the triumphs and disasters along the way. The grand dramas of the Cool War; the surge and land of the Berlin Wall structure; the Cuban Missile Problems; the September 11, 2001, episodes; and the Iraq Battle will be the backdrops for the average person spies whose stories form the centerpiece of this narrative. And some of the individuals featured here, in turn, helped shape the course of those situations. Corera draws on the first-hand accounts of these who have spied, lied, and in some cases nearly died operating of their state. They range from the spymasters to the realtors they controlled with their sworn opponents. And the truth is often more exceptional than the fiction.
