Public Servant, Secret Agent: The elusive life and violent death of
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On 30 March 1979, for the first time in more than 100 years, an MP was killed by a car bomb in the precincts of the House of Commons. Airey Neave was a loyal Tory backbencher who had last held ministerial office in 1959. What, then, had he done to deserve such a vicious and bloody attack? "Public Servant, Secret Agent" tells the tale of Neave's escape from Colditz, his involvement with the secret services and his shadowy role at the right of the Conservative party. With information about the mysterious circumstances surrounding Neave's death, Paul Routledge has written a revealing life of a man who was the ghost in the establishment.
Author: Paul Routledge
Format: Paperback, 400 pages, 129mm x 198mm, 302 g
Published: 2003, HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Historical, Political & Military
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On 30 March 1979, for the first time in more than 100 years, an MP was killed by a car bomb in the precincts of the House of Commons. Airey Neave was a loyal Tory backbencher who had last held ministerial office in 1959. What, then, had he done to deserve such a vicious and bloody attack? "Public Servant, Secret Agent" tells the tale of Neave's escape from Colditz, his involvement with the secret services and his shadowy role at the right of the Conservative party. With information about the mysterious circumstances surrounding Neave's death, Paul Routledge has written a revealing life of a man who was the ghost in the establishment.
Public Servant, Secret Agent: The elusive life and violent death of