In the pages of espionage, one name stands out above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, leader of the legendary Cambridge spymasters. A member of the British elite, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the top of Soviet counterintelligence and, as the liaison between MI6, the CIA, and the FBI, betrayed every secret of the Allies' operations to the Russians, endangering covert actions aimed at weakening the Iron Curtain in the early years of the Cold War. Written from Moscow in 1967, My Silent War shook the world and introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It inspired John Le Carre's Smiley novels and the later espionage novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was the most successful spy in history. He was also an exceptional writer who gave us the iconic story of the Cold War and revolutionized the process of writing spy fiction.