The Spy Catcher Trial
Turnbull Malcolm
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: William Heinemann
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1988
Edition: Reprint
Description: 228 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.
Publishers Description: The trial to stop publication of the book 'Spycatcher' by British spy, Peter Wright, as told by Malcolm Turnbull, the brash young Australian lawyer who defended him. The Thatcher Government tried to stop publication of the book as it revealed penetration of MI5 by Russian agents. When Malcolm Turnbull took Wright's case in early 1986 it was said he had a 1% chance of winning. Turnbull gives a full account of this celebrated legal event, discussing Wright's motives in publishing and those of the British Government in relentlessly pursuing the case. He also recreates the drama of the trial; his cross-examination of British Cabinet Secretary Sir Robert Armstrong is the centrepiece of the book.
ISBN: 9780855612399
(224754)
