George Blake was a Russian spy at the heart of British intelligence. Sean Bourke was from Limerick. They met in prison and hatched a plot to escape. They escaped from Wormwood Scrubs and Blake made his way to Moscow.
This is the first full account of lives of the conspirators to the Great Spy Escape. The author drew on unique access to the main players, revealing many unknown facts, he tells an unusual tale of broken boyhoods and how both main protagonists gained revenge through the political process.