Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-319) and index. Originally published in hardcover in 2016. Paperback edition first published in 2018.
Contents:
Prologue: Moscow, April 1956 -- From Kayuki to Clapham, 1921-32 -- Born now bred, 1932-43 -- SOE 1: Bingham's Unit, 1943-44 -- SOE 2: Coup de foudre, 1944 -- SOE 3: Daffers goes to war, 1944 -- Vienna role, 1946-48 -- A world changing, 1947-48 -- Into the lion's den, 1948-51 -- Moscow bound, 1951-54 -- Moscow 1: either silence or prison, 1954 -- Moscow 2: the squirrel and his nuts, 1955 -- Moscow 3: the strange affair of Yevgeni Brik, 1956 -- Moscow 4: Annus horribilis, 1956 -- From SovBloc to sun-block, 1957-59 -- Congo 1: into the cauldron, 1959 -- Congo 2: on the eve of destruction, 1959-60 -- Congo 3: seven months to murder, 1960-61 -- Congo 4: who killed Cock Robin? Not I, said the spy, 1961 -- Bewitched, bothered, bewildered ... and betrayed, 1962-64 -- Back in the field, 1964-67 -- Reform at last, 1967-69 -- Hanoi 1: spy station Hanoi, 1969-70 -- Hanoi 2: though never quite enough to ask for another year, 1969-70 -- What Daphne did next, 1970-74 -- C/WH 1: spymaster, 1975-77 -- C/WH 2: finale: Rhodesia and the ending of UDI, 1978-79 -- Return to Somerville, 1980-89 -- Daphne Park: a life extraordinary.
Summary:
"From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life - one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of its seven Area Controllers - an extraordinary achievement for a woman working within this most male-dominated and secretive of organizations. In Queen of Spies, Paddy Hayes recounts the fascinating story of the evolution of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from World War II to the Cold War through the eyes of Daphne Park, one of its outstanding and most unusual operatives. He provides the reader with one of the most intimate narratives yet of how the modern SIS actually went about its business whether in Moscow, Hanoi, or the Congo, and shows how Park was able to rise through the ranks of a field that had been comprised almost entirely of men"--Amazon.com.
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