CHAPMAN PINCHER

DANGEROUS   TO   KNOW

A   LIFE

Biteback Publishing

LONDON

2014

DESCRIPTION 

First Edition

Book measures 240mm x 160mm approximately.

386pp.

Hardback book with dust jacket.

CONDITION

In near-fine condition. The book is strong and tight. The dust jacket is excellent condition, with only a few tiny creases to the top edge. Internally the book is perfectly clean and bright. It seems as though it has not been opened or read.

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INTERESTING

 Henry Chapman Pincher (1914 to 2014) was an English journalist, historian and novelist whose writing mainly focused on espionage and related matters. Pincher's career as a journalist thereon mainly involved uncovering Cold War secrets in London for the Daily Express. During his career, he had contacts within the British Government that suggested MI5 and MI6 could possibly be providing housing unwittingly for Soviet agents. Pincher always went "above and beyond" for his investigative reporting style, including checking people's personal phone calls and relentlessly importuning important people, such as Prime Minister Harold Wilson for answers to questions that Pincher thought were being concealed from the public. He regularly provided exclusives that other journalists had missed, which led to his employers calling him "the lone wolf of Fleet Street". He made both friends and enemies in high places.