M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest master

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Review ------ "Fascinating biography ... Hemming has done a superb job" (Ben Macintyre The Times, 'Book of the Week') "Excellent biography… The author has done a terrific job of unscrambling Knight’s muddled life" (The Sunday Times) "Jaw-droppingly revelatory biography. *****" (Mail on Sunday) "‘Compelling new biography… Hemming has done a wonderful espionage job of his own, scouring obscure files to bring long-hidden agents and their exploits to light. It is also a gripping portrait of an era, now long gone, when the establishment could accommodate such extravagant oddness." (Daily Telegraph) "Henry Hemming has found a peach of a subject... Full of new material, fresh interpretations and uncompromising integrity... He has managed the great feat of producing a rattling good read that is also a major piece of revisionist history" (Richard Davenport-Hines Wall Street Journal) "Hemming has written a very readable, thoughtful and comprehensive account" (Alan Judd Literary Review) "I raced through Henry Hemming's book, constantly having to remind myself that it wasn't a work of fiction. It really has everything you'd want from a great espionage story: incredible agents risking their lives; the highest possible stakes, with the safety of the world hanging in the balance; and at its heart a complicated, mercurial master in Maxwell Knight spinning an ever more intricate web." (Matt Charman, O-nominated screenwriter of 'Bridge of Spies') "A major new biography" (Mail on Sunday) "Engaging and suspenseful" (Financial Times) "Lively contribution to a maverick literature" (The Observer) About the Author ---------------- Henry Hemming is the author of five works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times bestseller M, the Dolman Travel Award-shortlisted Misadventure in the Middle East and Churchill’s Iceman, a New York Times bestseller. He has written for the Economist, The Sunday Times, FT Magazine and the Washington Post, among many others. He lives in London with his two children.