Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Introduction xv
1 Before the Deluge 1
1 Seekers After Truth 1
2 The British: Gentlemen and Players 8
3 The Russians: Temples of Espionage 18
2 The Storm Breaks 42
1 The 'Fiction Flood' 42
2 Shadowing Canaris 56
3 Miracles Take a Little Longer: Bletchley 68
1 'Tips' and 'Cillis' 68
2 Flirting With America 96
4 The Dogs That Barked 103
1 'Lucy's' People 103
2 Sorge's Warnings 110
3 The Orchestra Plays 114
4 The Deaf Man in the Kremlin 122
5 Divine Winds 135
1 Mrs Ferguson's Tea Set 135
2 The Japanese 141
3 The Man Who Won Midway 156
6 Muddling and Groping: The Russians at War 174
1 Centre Mobilises 174
2 The End of Sorge 178
3 The Second Source 183
4 Gourevitch Takes a Train 186
7 Britain's Secret War Machine 195
1 The Sharp End 195
2 The Brain 200
3 At Sea 212
8 'Mars': The Bloodiest Deception 222
1 Gehlen 222
2 'Agent Max' 227
9 The Orchestra's Last Concert 238
10 Guerrilla 252
1 Resisters and Raiders 252
2 Soe 258
11 Hoover's G-Men, Donovan's Wild Men 281
1 Adventurers 281
2 Ivory Towers 297
3 Allen Dulles: Talking to Germans 303
12 Russia's Partisans: Terrorising Both Sides 314
13 Islands in the Storm 328
1 The Abwehr's Irish Jig 328
2 No Man's Land 335
14 A Little Help from their Friends 346
1 'It Stinks, but Somebody Has to Do It' 346
2 American Traitors 365
15 The Knowledge Factories 385
1 Agents 385
2 The Jewel of Sources 392
3 Production Lines 400
4 Infernal Machines 415
16 'Blunderhead': The English Patient 428
17 Eclipse of the Abwehr 444
1 Hitler's Bletchleys 444
2 'Cicero' 457
3 The Fantasists 461
4 The 'Good' Nazi 470
18 Battlefields 480
1 Wielding the Ultra Wand 480
2 Suicide Spies 488
3 Tarnished Triumph 494
19 Black Widows, Few White Knights 501
1 Fighting Japan 501
2 Fighting Each Other 510
3 The Enemy: Groping in the Dark 515
20 'Enormoz' 521
21 Decoding Victory 533
Acknowledgements 557
Notes and Sources 559
Bibliography 579
Index 587