Enemies Within

Exploring topics of national interest, loyalty and ideology, traitors offers a brand new treatment to this timeless, gripping story. London, 1979. Years after the Second World War has ended, in the midst of a four-decade long Cold War, a new revelation comes to shake British politics at its core. Now an art historian and a knight, Sir Anthony Blunt is unveiled by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a former Soviet Russian spy. Cambridge undergraduates were looked-after and had good prospects – neither money nor blackmail were at stake. So why did he do it? The Cambridge spies have attracted extensive interest but the allegations of Establishment cover-ups and high-level corruption never loses topicality. In this analysis of the Cambridge Spies, Richard Davenport-Hines places himself inside the men who had everything yet took the gamble of their lives, shining a new light on the infamous Five, with a special treatment of Victor Rothschild and Archie Clark Kerr and the collateral damage ensuing from their involvement.