cover image The Master Spy: The Story of K

The Master Spy: The Story of K

Phillip Knightley. Vintage Books USA, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72688-3

Knightley, who obtained a series of uncommonly frank interviews with Kim Philby not long before his death, has written an intimate portrait of the man widely regarded as the most successful penetration agent in the history of espionage. ``The book is a journalistic coup of the first order,'' observed PW . (Feb.)