In Peril in Paris, Sophie and Lil must leave London for the boulevards and grand hotels of Paris, on a case for the mysterious Secret Service Bureau. This new standalone series picks up in 1911 with the two heroines from Katherine Woodfine’s bestselling The Sinclair’s Mysteries, detectives Sophie Taylor and Lil Rose, who are stepping boldly into the world of international espionage. Written by popular author Katherine Woodfine and with illustrations by Karl James Mountford, Peril in Paris will is published in August 2018. Still, he was relieved of his duties in 1955.Peril in Paris is the first novel in a brand new historical espionage adventure series, Taylor & Rose: Secret Agents. Questions about him were asked in the House of Commons, but they were quickly shut down by then foreign secretary Harold Macmillan. “The last time I spoke to a communist knowing that he was a communist was sometime in 1934”, he told reporters at the time. Suspicion soon fell on Philby, who even held a press conference in his own apartment to deny the accusations. British officers had only one question in their minds: who was the one that alerted them, the person that would become known as the “third man”? Afraid of having their covers blown, Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow, and the alarm was raised. It was Philby himself that warned Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, played in the show by Thomas Arnold and Daniel Lapaine, respectively, of the secret service's intentions of bringing them in for questioning. It was during Philby’s time in Washington that two of his Cambridge friends and fellow Soviet spies were discovered, spelling the beginning of the end of his career in the MI6. Over the course of the next decades, he would use the medal to deflect accusations of being a communist. His reports, always favorable to fascist general Francisco Franco, earned him a Red Cross of Military Merit after Franco's forces took over Madrid. In order to get recruited as a secret agent in the UK, Philby began working as a journalist, covering conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War. Still, it was clear from the get-go that Moscow had its eyes set on the British Secret Service, best known simply as the MI6. No immediate results were expected or could have been expected.” In a lecture to members of the Stasi, the East German secret service, recovered by the BBC, Philby stated that his recruitment was “essentially a long range project. And though he would eventually become a master secret agent that would be known as “the spy that betrayed a generation," the start of his career wasn’t all that impressive. Whatever version of the story you choose to believe, what truly matters is what came after Philby’s recruitment. This, however, is the least important part of his tale. In this version of the story, Philby lied about his recruitment to protect colleagues that may have undergone the same process. It’s a believable story, but, according to the Times, many Western intelligence officials believed that Philby left for Austria already as a Soviet agent in order to carry out some probationary assignment. Played by Morgane Ferru in the MGM+ miniseries, Kohlman divorced Philby four years after their wedding, in 1938. According to his obituary in the New York Times, Philby always maintained that his recruitment took place in 1934, during a trip to Vienna in which he worked with local activists and married his first wife, Austrian Communist Litzi Kohlman. Reputable sources, such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, state that he was recruited by the USSR in 1933, when he was in his last year of university. The exact date of Kim Philby’s first contact with the Soviets is still up to debate. RELATED: 'A Spy Among Friends' Trailer: Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis are the Ultimate Frenemies His long-lived career as a spy began somewhere in the early to mid-1930s, when he was recruited alongside a group of fellow Cambridge students by the Soviet Secret Service, which would later become known as the KGB. Born on January 1, 1912, in Ambala, India, into what he himself described as “the ruling class of the British Empire”, Harold Philby gained the nickname of Kim in honor of the Rudyard Kipling novel of the same name about a boy that served as a British spy during the 19th century political standoff between the UK and Russia.
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