The book reviews the life of Charles Howard Ellis, an Australian born MI-6 agent who was accused of being a double or triple agent with passing information to Nazi Germany and the the Soviet Union.
The author reviews many books covering the same subject and tries to give their view on the accusations and also on the book and the author!
Whilst I appreciate intelligence agents live in a very secretive world with many lies and stories told to deflect the truth, I did feel the book did not really bring any new evidence to the subject nor lead the reader to any real conclusions either.
So by the time I had read this book I was still non the wiser nor really able to form my own conclusion on the accusations labelled against Ellis.

Col Charles Ellis has been an unknown character of modern history to most people, serving as he did with MI6 for the majority of his life. This account, that differs from many others, supports the view that he was not an alleged double or even triple agent supporting Nazi Germany and/or Russia, but a very clever operative during his forty years of service. We have all seen the fictional spymasters and their agents on the big and small screens, but this account of the real-life world of global espionage during times of war and so-called peace, is enthralling from beginning to end.
The real life spies mentioned throughout bring back memories for those of us to remember those days, of the Cambridge 5 especially Kim Philby, a notorious traitor employed by MI6. It is a refreshing change to read of the real life intrigue that went on in the intelligence world in the first half of the 20th century and also the disturbing influence of the speculation by the media as to the integrity of the personalities involved.
Fascinating read.

There seems to be an endless supply of WWII books, but this one is a break that I have looked forward to. Lots of interesting information that I have never picked up on before.