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Graham Greene's showdown with Soviet spy Kim Philby: A Splinter of Ice review by Arifa Akbar

Available online A meeting between the writer and the double agent, once colleagues at MI6, is strong on friendship and betrayal " but takes us no closer to the heart of either man In February 1987, the novelist Graham Greene met the Soviet spy Kim Philby for dinner. The latter had been the former's supervisor and friend at MI6 30 years earlier, but by the time they met Philby had long been exposed as a communist dou…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM on April 15, 2021

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