My Goodreads Review: A Spy Among Friends
May. 2nd, 2024 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is one of those books I'd have never gotten through as a big thick hardback, but I thoroughly enjoyed the Audible version. I'd been meaning to read/listen to something about the Cambridge spy ring for years, but this book showed up on Audible some months back & it offered an afterword by John Le Carre. That sold me!
The narrator for this one is plummy & understated, adding to the feel of a somewhat leisurely, detailed, ultimately very sad story of how One of Our Own Sort could have possibly spied for Moscow. I don't have the expertise to say whether Macintyre has all his research correct, but it seemed comprehensive without ever becoming tedious. I now feel as though I understand at least a bit about one of the most infamous incidents in postwar British intelligence.
Recommended for intelligence fans with terminal Anglophilia.
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