CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Epigraph
6. Author’s Note
7. Prologue
8. PART ONE
   BECOMING M
   1. 1 A Man Adrift
   2. 2 The Makgill Organisation
   3. 3 Bloody Fools
   4. 4 The Razor’s Edge
   5. 5 Revenge
   6. 6 The Freelance Spymaster
   7. 7 The Day
   8. 8 Exile
   9. 9 Morton’s Plan
   10. 10 “I Can Make Things Bloody Unpleasant for You”
9. PART TWO
   THE RED MENACE
   1. 11 Olga
   2. 12 The M Organisation
   3. 13 Watchers
   4. 14 Cuckoo Eggs
   5. 15 Trailing One’s Coat
   6. 16 An Author with Unpredictable Hours
   7. 17 Heart and Soul
   8. 18 Blackshirts
   9. 19 Courier
   10. 20 The Honeymooning Spy
   11. 21 Olga Pulloffski
   12. 22 Mussolini’s Man
   13. 23 A Mysterious Affair
   14. 24 Percy’s Proposal
   15. 25 Mr. Peters
   16. 26 Moscow Moves
   17. 27 Old Friends, New Agents
   18. 28 Reprieve
   19. 29 Miss X
   20. 30 Mona
   21. 31 “What a Very Beautiful View”
   22. 32 Crisis
10. PART THREE
    THE ENEMY WITHIN
    1. 33 Mrs. Mackie Investigates
    2. 34 The Fashion Designer
    3. 35 The Mystic
    4. 36 A Smokescreen
    5. 37 A Letter to an Old Friend
    6. 38 Carlyle
    7. 39 Victory at All Costs
    8. 40 The Raid
    9. 41 The Meeting
    10. 42 The Trial
    11. 43 Knight’s Black Agents
    12. 44 The Comintern Is Not Dead
    13. 45 Rebirth
11. Epilogue
12. Photos
13. Acknowledgments
14. About the Author
15. Select Bibliography
16. Notes
17. Index