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Ben Macintyre


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Ben Macintyre is a writer-at-large for The Times (U.K.) and the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, and Rogue Heroes, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.

Average rating: 4.29 · 226,224 ratings · 19,846 reviews · 38 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Spy and the Traitor: Th...

4.52 avg rating — 85,000 ratings — published 2018 — 87 editions
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Ph...

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4.19 avg rating — 28,707 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Operation Mincemeat: How a ...

4.03 avg rating — 22,873 ratings — published 2010 — 72 editions
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story ...

4.14 avg rating — 19,965 ratings — published 2007 — 67 editions
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most ...

4.16 avg rating — 17,038 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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Rogue Heroes: The History o...

4.36 avg rating — 16,039 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions
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Double Cross: The True Stor...

3.99 avg rating — 13,731 ratings — published 2012 — 55 editions
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Prisoners of the Castle: An...

4.26 avg rating — 10,077 ratings — published 2022 — 38 editions
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostag...

4.37 avg rating — 6,306 ratings — published 2024 — 19 editions
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The Napoleon of Crime: The ...

3.85 avg rating — 2,266 ratings — published 1997 — 28 editions
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“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.”
Ben Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

“What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?”
Ben MacIntyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

“The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.”
Ben MacIntyre, Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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