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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.

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Average rating: 4.29 · 229,824 ratings · 20,115 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors
The Spy and the Traitor: Th...
4.52 avg rating — 86,330 ratings — published 2018 — 87 editions
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Operation Mincemeat: How a ...
4.03 avg rating — 23,122 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story ...
4.14 avg rating — 20,142 ratings — published 2007
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most ...
4.16 avg rating — 17,328 ratings — published 2020 — 55 editions
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Rogue Heroes: The History o...
4.36 avg rating — 16,343 ratings — published 2016 — 45 editions
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Double Cross: The True Stor...
3.99 avg rating — 13,819 ratings — published 2012
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Prisoners of the Castle: An...
4.26 avg rating — 10,266 ratings — published 2022
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostag...
4.37 avg rating — 6,896 ratings — published 2024
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The Napoleon of Crime: The ...
3.86 avg rating — 2,287 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
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“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
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“It is perfectly possible for two people to listen to the same words and hear entirely different things.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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