Peter Wright SPYCATCHER True First Edition
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Peter Wright SPYCATCHER True First Edition
First edition, first print hardback of SPYCATCHER, by Peter Wright (with Paul Greengrass) and published by Heinemann Australia in 1987. This is the original suppressed first edition issued in Dublin, with the red band across the dust jacket and no photographs inside. Unfortunately, this copy has a clipped dust jacket, so the price is not shown. Later editions did not have the red band and were illustrated with black & white photographs.The book is in very good condition with only minor wear to the dust jacket, which is price clipped (slight rubbing/creasing to edges, bumping to corners, nothing too drastic). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
No book in the last century attracted more attention before publication than 'Spycatcher'. It made front page headlines around the world as the British government tried desperately to suppress Peter Wright's explosive revelations.Every page of this remarkable book startles with its frankness. Here for the first time is the full, inside story of how Peter Wright and his MI5 colleagues bugged and burgled their way through friendly and unfriendly embassies across London; of the MI5 plot to destabilize Harold Wilson's government; of the suspicion that the head of MI5 himself was a Soviet agent.'Spycatcher' tells with extraordinary honesty and detail the devastating story of how a government agency which operated outside propriety and the law, where the only rule was the 11th Commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Get Caught'. It is written with the full authority of a man who rose to be an Assistant Director of MI5 and was acknowledged to be its most brilliant and innovative technical officer.
Peter Wright gives the first authoritative account of the disastrous MI6 mission which led to the death of Buster Crabbe; of the almost bungled trapping of the Soviet master spy Gordon Lonsdale; of the interrogation of Anthony Blunt; and of his grippingly dramatic encounter with Roger Hollis, Director General of MI6 who, on the eve of his retirement began a conversation by asking: Peter, I wanted to know why you think I'm a spy?
But beyond these revelations and scandals is the spellbinding story of today's (1980s) spies and how they work. It is a world of high-tech wizardry, of treachery and incompetence, of razor's edge political decisions taken by men in the field with only a split second to react. It is a story of bravery, of dedication and often of bitter frustration.
392 pages with an index. No illustrations. ISBN: 0 85561 098 0We use industry standard packaging
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Peter Wright SPYCATCHER True First Edition