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Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard "Dick" Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century. The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) , Ellis came to New York at the beginning of World War II as deputy to William Stephenson at British Security Coordination (BSC) and helped set up for William Donovan the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) , what would eventually evolve into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) . At one point in the 1940s he was considered one of the top three secret agents in MI6, controlling its activities "for half the world.
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JESSE FINK, born in London in 1973, is the author of five books including two internationally bestselling biographies: BON: THE LAST HIGHWAY and THE YOUNGS. His latest book, PURE NARCO, the true-crime tale of former Cuban-American cocaine trafficker Luis Navia, will be published in the United Kingdom and Australia in October 2020, and the United States in 2021.BON, out now, has been published in English, French, German, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese. Visit Jesse's official website at www.jessefinkbooks.com.You can join 28,000 fans who like Jesse at www.facebook.com/jessefinkbooks or follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/JesseFink or Instagram at www.instagram.com/JesseFink.
