The Book of Secrets : A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China

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‘An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid’ –Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling’s Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding story of the secret life of a spy in modern China, drawn from an extraordinary archive of personal diaries and letters. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China, but also the emotional tragedies that political extremism inflicted on those working within.