Compelling study of spies, sex and snobbery
It's not hard to understand the appeal that the Cambridge spies of the 1930s and 1940s continue to exert on the British imagination. Their stories are set in the corridors of power in Westminster and Washington, and involve astounding acts of espionage, the systematic betrayal of close friends, and lots of sex - both gay and straight. Small wonder they still command the attention of novelists, playwrights and biographers.
There were five of them altogether, and four of these belonged to an elite group, which had been raised to become part of the British ruling class. They had attended leading English public schools, and had been educated at a University that has supplied the United Kingdom with 14 of its Prime Ministers. One of them was even a cousin of the late Queen Mother.
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