The most secret of agents are those known as "illegals", the committed professionals who adopt a carefully-crafted false identity and live in a host community as an unsuspected mole, often for years. Nigel West has been granted unprecedented access by the former spymasters of the KGB to delve into their history. The author also wrote "A Matter of Trust MI5:1945-72", "Molehunt", "Game of Intelligence" and "Britain's Post-War Secret Intelligence Operations".
- ISBN10 0340617640
- ISBN13 9780340617649
- Publish Date 17 November 1994 (first published 4 November 1993)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English