I felt like I had a 4 hour brutally honest conversation with my new best friend who said all of the things I‘d been thinking but felt like I couldn‘t say. Great book for confronting the tough topics in life, but you come out better on the other side.

This is an excellent book that centers the narrative of Kim Philby's betrayal of his country around his friendship with Nicholas Elliot, as well as his "close" set of friends within MI5, MI6, and the CIA. Macintyre's descriptions of the characters, be they large or small, are colorful and entertaining and one feel's as if one is at the table with the rest of them.