{"product_id":"9780241726358","title":"My Family and Other Spies","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Wood, Alistair \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 08\/05\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241726358,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePre-order this unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘”Did you know him?” a priest asked me when I first visited my father’s impressive marble tomb in Bosnia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI gave an honest answer – “No, I can’t say I really knew him at all”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a view shared by the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service’s anti-Soviet operations. “I don’t suppose we’ll ever really know the truth about J.B. Wood?” he told me. But he thought I had a better chance of finding out than most.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter all, most of my family had at one time or another been with SIS, my mother one of only a handful of female agents to have operated behind the lines in post-war Berlin. I had grown up within the perimeter of a specialist SIS training camp, surrounded by some of the most senior - and colourful - characters in the Service’s history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo began a personal, insider’s investigation into the life - or lives - of one of SIS's more unlikely, if highly regarded, officers. And, in an admittedly crowded field, one of its most duplicitous . . .’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55199144051061,"sku":"9780241726358","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241726358.jpg?v=1742982198","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780241726358","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}