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The first published account of the Five Eyes, the elite spy network created by Britain and the United States that industrialised espionage operations.

About the Author

Richard Kerbaj is a Bafta-winning and twice Emmy-nominated filmmaker and writer who has specialised in investigating crime- and national security-related stories for more than fifteen years. He has written extensively about the impact that counter-terrorism and counter-espionage have had on intelligence agencies, including MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the CIA, in their battle against ISIS and al-Qaeda, Russia's widespread disinformation campaigns, and China's industrialised thefts of Western intellectual property.

Richard is a multi award-winning journalist who was the security correspondent for the Sunday Times from 2010 to 2020. Before that, he worked for The Times as a foreign correspondent, and for The Australian newspaper. He has also written and produced award-winning documentaries.

Reviews

'Puts Richard Kerbaj in the front rank of modern authors on espionage. It is, by turns, gripping and shocking and sheds completely new light on the most important intelligence alliance in the world'
*Tim Shipman, author of All Out War*

'An impressively detailed account of a remarkable alliance'
*New Statesman*

'Sensational'
*The Mirror*

'Explosive'
*The World News*

'Examines decades of intelligence sharing'
*The Telegraph*

'Reopen[s] the debate'
*The Times*

'This thought-provoking and informative book suggests that the era of globetrotting lone agents such as James Bond is long gone'
*Sydney Morning Herald*

'Richard Kerbaj... has chronicled the history of the Fives Eyes spy network. His list of interviewees speaks for itself - several former heads of MI5, MI6, GCHQ, the CIA, four former British and Australian prime ministers, and myriad other current and former spooks. But this account is unencumbered by any sense of an agreed or official narrative (the usual price for this level of journalistic access)'
*The Sunday Times*

'It is an extraordinary development . . . sets out evidence that the British authorities conspired in a cover-up'
*The Times*