<DIV><DIV><DIV><P>Gordon Thomas has established himself as a leading expert on the intelligence community. He returns here on the one hundredth anniversaries of Britain&#8217;s Security and Secret Intelligence Services to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5 and MI6.</P><P>These agencies rank as two of the oldest and most powerful in the world, and Thomas&#8217;s wide-sweeping history chronicles a century of both triumphs and failures.&nbsp; He recounts the roles that British intelligence played in the Allied victory in World War II; the postwar treachery of Great Britain&#8217;s own agents; the defection of Soviet agents and the intricate process of &#8220;handling&#8221; them; the often frigid relationship that both agencies have had with the CIA, European spy services, and the Mossad; the cooperation between the British and Americans in the search for Osama bin Laden; and the ways in which MI5 and MI6 have fought biological warfare espionage and space terrorism.</P><P>All told, this is the story of two agencies led by men---and women---who are enigmatic, eccentric, and controversial, and who ruthlessly control their spies. Based on prodigious research and interviews with significant players from inside the British intelligence community, this is a rich and even delicious history packed with intrigue and information that only the author could have attained.</P><P>&nbsp;</P></DIV></DIV></DIV>