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Robert Hutton

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All of Robert Hutton’s career moves have been accidental. He started as a computer scientist but fell into journalism, and then stumbled across a true WW2 spy story that so excited him he wrote a book about it, Agent Jack.

His new book, The Illusionist, is about Dudley Clarke, the eccentric genius who realised how the Allies could use stage magic to deceive the Nazis.

Robert’s day job is as political satirist for The Critic magazine, and he hosts the podcast War Movie Theatre.

He lives in south east London with his wife and sons.

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Agent Jack: The True Story ...

3.71 avg rating — 795 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions
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3.99 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions
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Romps, Tots and Boffins: Th...

3.53 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions
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Would They Lie to You?

3.69 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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Extraordinary Correspondence

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“In 1942, Liddell confided a worry to his diary: ‘There is no doubt that the Russians are far better in the matter of espionage than any other country in the world.’ He continued, ‘I am perfectly certain that they are well bedded down here and that we should be making more active investigations. They will be a great source of trouble to us when the war is over.”
Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

“Roger’s view is that the country is full of evilly-intentioned persons, but that there is no necessity to drag them out of their holes. They had much better be left to rot in obscurity, and will be swamped by the common sense of the community as a whole.’ As the operation continued, so did the debate within MI5 about its future.”
Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

“Worse, it had revealed something about Britain that few wanted to acknowledge. The country told itself that, while other nations might be willing to goose-step or bend to the will of a dictator, such things were not in the British nature. But Roberts had found ordinary British men and women who didn’t just privately wish Hitler well, but were prepared to risk their lives to help him. Behind them were surely many more who would cheerfully have gone along with fascism if it had seemed the safest course.”
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