McClean had a brilliant mind and was a top trusted official at the Foreign Office. Or so it appeared. Actually he was a Communist who betrayed his country not to some form of ideal state but to a dictatorship under monster and mass murderer - Joseph Stalin. McClean did great damage to the West. Realising the game was up he was exfiltrated to Russia with Guy Burgess. To assuage his guilt he drowned himself in alcohol. I can think of nothing good to say about him. A beautifully written and researched biography.
(David Graham - bwl 92 Spring 2019 ) |
