Richard Kerbaj

The Times best political books of 2022 "This thought-provoking and informative book suggests that the era of globetrotting lone agents such as James Bond is long gone." - Sydney Morning Herald "The stories Kerbaj tells reveal ... a story of failure - of missing warnings that could have prevented atrocities, of misusing intelligence to start a war." - Observer "Scintillating...

Drawing on newly declassified intelligence documents and dozens of interviews with spymasters, The Defector tells a startling story of a Soviet mission to plant fake Kremlin agents within British and American intelligence services, the paranoia that ensued, and how the actions of a genuine turncoat, the former KGB officer Oleg Lyalin, and the secrets he revealed resulted in one of...