In Master of Lies, Piers Blofeld argues that the man judged the most benign of the ‘Cambridge five’ was actually the most treacherous

The acclaimed novelist finds his thoughts turning to London sounds and London planes, a 1960s African assassination and a lovely little monochrome seascape

Assassination and a brutal civil war followed when the US meddled with the affairs of a sovereign country

Three essential books on spies and their secret world

Lea Ypi's Indignity mixes biography and fiction to explore the life of her grandmother under Albania's Stalinist regime

Having reported from war zones and acted as a spy, Forsyth, who has died at the age of 86, brought all his experience and eye for detail to his gritty debut novel, The Day of the Jackal