CONTENTS

List of Plates

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and glossary

Author’s note

Map of Europe in 1925

PROLOGUE Cocktails

INTRODUCTION Soldier, spy

PART I: EUROPE

  1 The slow war

  2 Red Vienna

  3 Tangled web

  4 A dangerous game

  5 Finis Austriae

  6 The spy who saved a generation

  7 At the mercy of the Gestapo

PART II: BRITAIN

  8 Secrets of the Tower

  9 Eavesdropping on the enemy

10 The Hess affair

11 The madness of Hess

12 A very secret place

13 Special intelligence

14 D-Day and its aftermath

15 Still listening

EPILOGUE A life of secrets

AFTERWORD Secrets to the grave

Endnotes

Bibliography and further reading

Index