Nigel West

NIGEL WEST is a military historian specialising in security and intelligence issues. He was voted ‘the experts’ expert’ by a panel of other spy writers in The Observer, with the Sunday Times commenting: ‘His information is so precise that many people believe he is the unofficial historian of the secret services. West’s sources are undoubtedly excellent. His books are peppered with deliberate clues to potential front-page stories.’

In 2003, he was awarded the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers’ first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award, and until 2015, he lectured at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Alexandria, Virginia.