Abstract
Nigel West, GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War, 1900–1986 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986), pp.294; £12.95. Phillip Knightley, The Second Oldest Profession: The Spy as Bureaucrat, Patriot, Fantasist and Whore (London: Andre Deutsch, 1986), pp.436; £14.95.