Ben Macintyre

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. ”

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. ”

The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game. ”