The Traitors

by Alan Moorehead

"I can't think of any recent thriller which competes with this drama... fascinating." —Atlantic Monthly

This is the story of men who chose with remarkable arrogance to betray us for our own good...self-appointed saviors of humanity in cloack and dagger...spies as dangerous and clever as James Bond and Mata Hari, but infinitely more deceitful and treacherous because they had infinitely more power... a true story all the more spellbinding because you were the victim and the enemy... A brilliant success." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Saturday Review

1972 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

Alan Moorehead was lionised as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II; author of award winning books; star travel writer of The New Yorker; pioneer publicist of wildlife conservation. At the height of his success, his writing suddenly stopped and when, 17 years later, his death was announced, he seemed a heroic figure from the past. His fame as a writer gave him the friendship of Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw and Field Marshall Montgomery and the courtship and marriage of his beautiful wife Lucy Milner.

After 1945, he turned to writing books, including Eclipse, Gallipoli (for which he won the Duff Cooper Prize), The White Nile, The Blue Nile, and finally, A Late Education. He was awarded an OBE in 1946, and died in 1983.

Reviews

[Desirae · Rating 3 out of 5]

The beginning especially presented some really fascinating storytelling, but then became somewhat tedious in the middle parts, and then was compelling toward the end.