And this is not because history is less fun than fiction, but because the such historical background is just not very insightful. The other, the chapters in italic, are about Philby's life until his defection this is a mix of fiction and real events, and is much less engrossing than the previous part. The Other Side Of Silence is actually two books in one: the first is about the intrigues that Philly's message of wanting to come back home unleash within the British intelligence world this is mainly fiction - though against an historical backdrop - and it is pretty good fiction. So far I stumbled into a couple of good (The Twelfth Day In January, The Crossing and Shadow Of A Doubt) and even a very good (Seeds Of Treason, in my view the best of Allbeury works), while you can skip most of the rest without losing much. In the end, Allbeury's work was buried under such over-production, which I’m still digging into to find the good, the bad and the ugly. Ted Allbeury was an extremely prolific writer, he produced an incredibly high number of novels, he came to writing up to 3-4 books a year and he had to adopt two aka's to help carry the weight of such vast production. I came to discover Ted Allbeury quite late, and as a junkie of espionage novels I felt this was a shame so I'm trying to catch up.
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