Rupert Allason
Autor de A Matter of Trust: MI5, 1945-72
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Rupert Allason
The Sigint Secrets: The Signals Intelligence War, 1990 to Today-Including the Persecution of Gordon Welchman (1988) 39 copias
Counterfeit Spies: Genuine or Bogus? An Astonishing Investigation into Secret Agents of the Second World War (Nigel… (1998) 22 copias
The Guy Liddell Diaries: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II, Volume 1: 1939-1942 (2005) — Editor — 19 copias
The Guy Liddell Diaries: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II, Volume 2: 1942-1945 (2005) — Editor — 15 copias
Double Cross in Cairo: The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East (2015) 15 copias
Historical Dictionary of Cold War Counterintelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence) (2007) 10 copias
Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, No. 1) (2005) 9 copias
Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence) (2006) 8 copias
Historical Dictionary of Sexspionage (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence) (2009) 3 copias
Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming's World of Intelligence: Fact and Fiction (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence… (2009) 2 copias
Obras relacionadas
British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940-1945 (1998) — Introducción — 42 copias
False Flag: The Soviet Spy Who Penetrated the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (1999) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 21 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Allason, Rupert William Simon
- Otros nombres
- West, Nigel
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1951-11-08
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- United Kingdom
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Ocupaciones
- military historian
Member of Parliament
novelist - Organizaciones
- Conservative Party
- Premios y honores
- AFIO Lifetime Literature Achievement Award
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 58
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 1,128
- Popularidad
- #22,766
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 169
- Idiomas
- 4
As someone whose work takes me into parliament (both Houses) two or three times a week I was intrigued to read this. While the plot is decidedly unrealistic, and unnecessarily over-complicated, the insights into parliamentary procedures are very well drawn and accurate. I was very impressed to see a fleeting reference to the work of my own department, although sadly it was clear that the specific subject (‘export credit guarantees’) was chosen by the protagonist as one likely to make the eyes of the person he was addressing glaze over in incomprehension. All too often those words have that effect on me, too.
The plot is rather ridiculous, and clearly just a vehicle for a lurid and scurrilous novel set in parliament, and it was no less enjoyable for that! Set during the 1990s (during the final parliament of John Major’s government), it follows the investigation into the death of little-known Welsh Labour MP, Alun Rees. Bizarrely, the principal investigator is Conservative MP Philip North, who had been Rees’s ‘pair’. While the investigation is conducted by the metropolitan police, as Rees died within the precincts of parliament, it is actually the responsibility of the Speaker of the House. He commissions North to accompany the police,, and to keep him informed of any developments that might reflect embarrassingly upon Parliament.
West writes in an amusing way, and manages to convey a huge amount of information about some of the more quirky aspects of life in the Palace of Westminster. The plot is ridiculous, but presumably deliberately so, and I found it a pleasantly diverting, if insubstantial, read.… (más)