A MATTER OF TRUST M.I.5. 1945 - 72

by Nigel West

Coronet Books/Hodder & Stoughton 1983 256 pages

paperback - approx 17.5cm x 11cm - sticker residue on front cover - creasing - black/white photographs - no inscriptions

Was the former Director-General of the Security Service, Sir Roger Hollis, a traitor? Who was the defector whose memory of files in Moscow led to the identification of more than a dozen Russian spies in the West? These are just two of the questions posed in this unique and highly readable account of Britain's premier counter-intelligence organization. The answers are stranger than fiction, and yet thoroughly documented with names, dates and places. With A MATTER OF TRUST Nigel West has created a sensation: nobody will fail to be shaken by his remarkable analysis of those who, till now, have remained faceless and nameless.

(from back-cover)