Nigel West is perhaps our most authoritative author on espionage and the secret services. His first encounter with the intelligence community was a lecture given at his school by John le Carré, the guest of a Benedictine monk who had recently retired from MI6. The priest, who had killed a German civilian while escaping from a PoW camp in 1942, inspired many of his pupils to join the intelligence community. Wests most recent investigation involved the identification in 2023 of a Soviet mole inside the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.As action-packed as those of the spies he has written about, Classified! is the surprising life story of one of our most celebrated writers.