is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his ´secret sharers´ - the men and women, who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author´s extraordinary engagement with the last half-century. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author´s frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author´s inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of this country´s greatest writers.