The Faber Book of Treachery

Britain's most authoritative espionage writer, Nigel West, investigates the subject of treachery in an anthology of the writings that caused regimes to shudder, democratic administrations to tremble and governments to contemplate assassination.

All the authors gathered in this anthology were either guilty of treason or have been the subject of an accusation of treachery. One was hanged, several committed suicide, some were imprisoned, most were obliged to assume new identities. As...
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Britain's most authoritative espionage writer, Nigel West, investigates the subject of treachery in an anthology of the writings that caused regimes to shudder, democratic administrations to tremble and governments to contemplate assassination.

All the authors gathered in this anthology were either guilty of treason or have been the subject of an accusation of treachery. One was hanged, several committed suicide, some were imprisoned, most were obliged to assume new identities. As The Faber Book of Treachery shows, their stories did not just make a difference, but in some cases changed history.