The Spy's Bedside Book

Graham Greene, Hugh Greene, Stella Rimington

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Arrow
15 October 2008

Fiction & Literature; Espionage & spy thriller

A classic compendium of espionage stories - fiction, memoir and autobiography - from the pens of some of the greatest writers and most famous spies. With an introduction by Stella Rimington, former head of MI5

On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence.

This classic anthology, with a new introduction by the former head of MI5, Stella Rimington, includes stories by some of the great writers on spying and many practitioners, including Ian Fleming and John Buchan, Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Belle Boyd, Walter Schellenberg and Major Andre, Sir Paul Dukes and Vladimir Petrov, and. from the golden age of mystery and suspense, William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim. There are also some unexpected figures- William Blake, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, all suspected of spying in three great wars.

How can you hide messages in a boiled egg? Why should you always put pepper in your vodka when in Russia? Answers to these questions and much more can be found in this thrilling collection, which will enthral readers once again with its tales of espionage from a bygone era.

By: Graham Greene, Hugh Greene
Foreword by: Stella Rimington
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 192g
ISBN: 9780099519607
ISBN 10: 0099519607
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 October 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Graham Greene was born in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford he published his first book of verse. He continued to write throughout his lifetime, and served with the Secret Intelligence Service during the Second World War. He died in 1991. Hugh Greene was born in 1910. He came to prominence as a journalist when he became a chief correspondent in Nazi Berlin. During the Second World War he served in the RAF. He went on to join the BBC and was made Director-General in 1960. He died in 1987.

Reviews for The Spy's Bedside Book

I fear England will be infested with alien agents who have learned their trade from this revealing and mischievous compilation The Evening News (London) [A] marvellous anthology of spy stories -- Jeremy Lewis The Oldie This charming 1957 curiosity, a compendium of espionage vignettes, will bring out the spy in everyone Evening Standard