ROGUE AGENT

It is impossible not to keep the pages turning Scotland on Sunday It s a brilliant book everyone go and get it Dan Snow Compelling and meticulously researched the riveting life of a maverick Scottish spy Charles Cumming THE THRILLING BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART BRITAIN S AGENT IN MOSCOW Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart 1887 1970 was an impressive figure a diplomat intelligence agent conspirator journalist and propagandist who played a key role in both world wars He was a man who charmed his way into the confidences of everyone from Leon Trotsky to Anthony Eden A man whom the influential press baron Lord Beaverbook claimed could well have been prime minister And yet Lockhart died almost forgotten and near destitute a Scottish footnote in the pages of history Rogue Agent is the first biography of this gifted yet habitually flawed maverick It chronicles his many exploits from his time as Britain s Agent in Moscow and his role in a plot to bring down the communist regime to leading the Political Warfare Executive a secret body responsible for disinformation and propaganda in the Second World War Exploring Lockhart s unorthodox thinking and contributions to the development of psychological warfare as well as his hedonistic lifestyle late nig