Buy this book on-line HEALD**, TIM: : THE RIGBY FILELONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1989. ISBN 034050207X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no clip to dw/dj. Pictorial colour decorated dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear to edges and very light creasing/bumping to head of spine/ backstrip - no nicks or tears present.Top +fore-edges very lightly aged; contents bright,tight and pristine.Brown paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw.dj,1st edn,9- 283pp includes an introduction,an epilogue and contributions from 13 distinguished crime writers including H.R.F. Keating, Peter Lovesey, Paula Gosling, Michael Gilbert, Richard Martin Stern, William Haggard, Duncan Kyle, Angela Cheyne, James
Leasor, Anthony Price, John Ehrlichman and Minette Marrin.
Dorothy Mayotte Rigby,born in Madras, India in 1920,was, without question,the single most brilliant and important British secret agent of the post-war years.A signatory of the Official Secrets Act,Rigby has until now kept her own counsel about those events in which she played a major role.But, as more and more former colleagues choose to reveal their dubious memories of 'what really happened',Rigby has been persuaded that she now has a positive duty to speak out, to put the record straight and to defend the reputation of the dead.Unable to present the facts in straightforward form, she appointed Tim Heald to act as her literary executor and he has commissioned leading crime writers from both sides of the Atlantic to deal with one episode each from this extraordinary life.Miss Rigby has given every assistance to those writers and her involvement in such momentous events as Hitler's last meeting with Chamberlain,the advent of myxomatosis in Britain and the Suez crisis,together with her war-time Special Operations Executive work and,perhaps her most formidable accomplishment - the impersonation of Mrs Thatcher during the 1979 election campaign are all documented in this book.A book which,even more than 'Spycatcher',blows the stable doors off Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. 20thC history will never be the same.
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