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Geoff Andrews is a writer, historian and biographer. His previous books include The Shadow Man: at the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle and Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi. He is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University.
Compelling... Geoff Andrews's research is extensive and exemplary. * Morning Star * [Cairncross] lived in a sort of self-imposed exile on the Continent, eking out an existence as a jobbing writer and translator. When he was finally unmasked as the Fifth Man, nobody really seemed to care. [Andrews] has set out to remedy this. * Mail on Sunday * In Agent Moliere, respected historian Geoff Andrews provides a well-researched and absorbing account of Cairncross's life from his passing on of secret documents to the Russians during World War II to his later life as a university professor in Italy and his eventual unveiling as the 'fifth man'. A must for all armchair spies. -- Jeff Popple * Canberra Weekly * Geoff Andrews brilliantly captures the essence of the unlikely fifth man in the notorious Cambridge spy ring, exploding the myths surrounding John Cairncross. His meticulous research paints a picture of an exceptional scholar from a humble background uncomfortable in the corridors of the Whitehall establishment. As Andrews astutely comments, Cairncross was incapable of subscribing to any kind of orthodoxy . Agent Moliere is a refreshing and most welcome biography which blows away the cobwebs left by traditional spy writers. * Richard Norton-Taylor, author of The State of Secrecy * A thorough and thoughtful exploration of the complex life and personality of John Cairncross. This is the book we have been waiting for that rounds off the epic story of the Cambridge Spies. * Roland Philipps, Author of A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean *
