Johanna van Haarlem looks at the man with the hawk-like features in the defendant's dock. There is no expression on his face. No remorse. And certainly no love.

For over 10 years, she believed him to be Erwin van Haarlem, the son she had given up for adoption as a baby during the chaos of Europe in World War II. She had accepted him into her family and had offered him all the love he had missed as a child. Then, she lost her son again when the police told her that the man she was now facing in court was an imposter. It turned out his real name was Vaclav Jelinek.

However, the Special Operations Agency, MI5, and even the judge who convicted Erwin van Haarlem in 1989 as the last agent of the Soviet bloc of the Cold War had no idea of his true identity - he was the nameless spy. Using the name Erwin van Haarlem, he was tasked by his masters to spy on the Royal Family and the Labour Party, infiltrate Jewish groups, and steal the nuclear secrets of the West. But his greatest betrayal was towards the woman who he convinced into believing that she was his mother for over ten years.

Only after British intelligence caught the spy red-handed sending coded messages to Prague from his apartment in London did Johanna finally have to accept that the charming art dealer she thought was Erwin was a professional liar. She had wanted so badly to believe he was her son that she ignored a crucial detail that revealed him - his eyes were brown, while her baby's were blue.

In A Spy In The Family, investigative journalists Paul Henderson and David Gardner unveil the incredible untold story of a mother who lost her son twice.

Pages: 288, Dimensions: 15.3x15.3cm