The Cambridge Five: The Treachery of the Five Who Got Away
Perhaps no group of spies has been written about as often as the Cambridge Five. Nearly a century after their recruitment by the KGB and over three decades since the death of the last of their number, they continue to befuddle and fascinate in equal measure. How could such sons of privilege betray their motherland for such a reprehensible cause as Soviet Communism? Alternatively, having once elected to indulge a youthful fancy, why stick with it once the bloody accounting of Stalinism became impossible to deny? Shawnna Morris is more successful answering the first of these questions than the second in her new volume, The Cambridge Spy Ring.