Dead Doubles

The definitive account of the famous Portland Spies - fascinating, detailed and completely gripping. - Richard J Aldrich, author GCHQ

I read DEAD DOUBLES with admiration...fascinating and meticulous...Using all available American, British and Russian sources, Trevor Barnes has produced a remarkable book. - Harvey Klehr, co-author Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

A highly readable account of a classic Cold War MI5 investigation. Assiduously researched and a real page-turner - Nigel West, author of MI5 and The Illegals

Excellent and riveting, with a cast of characters as engaging as in any novel. Former KGB officer Vladimir Putin's modern-day Russia employs the same espionage methods now against the West. The themes of Dead Doubles - deception, betrayal, blackmail, chemical and biological weapons, atomic secrets, international rivalry - are as topical today as in the 1960s. - John Sipher, Former Head, CIA Russian Operations, and CIA Station Chief in Asia and Europe

A gripping and brilliantly researched history of the rise and fall of the Portland Spy Ring, which reveals much about the operations and personnel of Russian, British and American intelligence at the height of the Cold War. - Christopher Andrew, author of Defence of the Realm and The Secret World

An enthralling account of one of the last great spy mysteries of the 20th Century - I loved it. - John Preston, author of A Very English Scandal

Dead Doubles will keep readers on the edge of their seats, turning its pages like a delicious spy novel. Its pace and wide scope of research take us into a hidden corner of Cold War England in the early 1960s. - Katherine Sibley, author of First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy and Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War

Reads like a le Carre thriller - only true. Rich in detail. A must read. - Ray Batvinis, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent of Counterintelligence and author of Hoover's Secret War Against Axis Spies