SpyCatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer [Spy Catcher]

New York: Viking / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 20x20x20. 1/4 inch closed jacket tear, minor wear to corners. 1987 Hard Cover. 392 pp. Peter Maurice Wright (August 9, 1916 - April 27, 1995) was a scientist and former MI5 counterintelligence officer noted for writing the controversial book Spycatcher, which became an international bestseller with sales of over 2 million. Spycatcher was part memoir, part expose of what Wright claimed to be serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into it. He was a friend and a poker buddy of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton.