Elliott Geoffrey. I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent

Little Brown and Company, 2000. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0316639702; ISBN13: 9780316639705.Major Kavan Elliott, a celebrated hero dropped blind into Serbia in 1942 on a mission for Special Operations Executive and who spent much of the war in a Nazi prison camp -- was he a courageous daredevil or a philandering scoundrel?Geoffrey Elliott's meticulous research led him across Europe, tracking the men who captured his father as a British spy in Yugoslavia, imprisoned him in Germany, and expelled him from Hungary in 1949. What Elliott discovers is a personal life almost as complex and colorful as his father's clandestine activities, with two families, a bevy of beautiful mistresses, and a business life tainted by deception and foul play.From the torture chambers of Budapest to the classified archives of the British Secret Intelligence Service, I Spy reveals a true and astonishing legacy of espionage, betrayal, and romance.