As for my dearest, loveliest lovelies Karen White and Lauren Willig, there are no words to thank ewe for all your support and encouragement during the writing of this book. Certain things only the three of us shall ever know. One truth we’ve proved for sure, though—friendship knows no distance.

As always, my deepest thanks to my family for your love and patience as I made my endless daily circuits from kitchen to laundry room to writing chair.

To my readers, whose kind messages and thoughtful reviews revived my spirits at every low ebb, I can’t begin to express my gratitude. This book wouldn’t exist without you.

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BEATRIZ WILLIAMS is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Her Last Flight, The Summer Wives, and The Golden Hour, as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye, cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.

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On a Friday evening at the end of May 1951, after celebrating his thirty-eighth birthday with a ham supper, British diplomat Donald Maclean kissed his pregnant wife, Melinda, and his two sons goodbye and drove from his comfortable suburban home to Southampton, England, where he boarded a weekend pleasure cruise with his friend and Cambridge contemporary Guy Burgess and defected to the Soviet Union.

So began the decades-long unraveling of the Cambridge Five, the most notorious espionage ring in British history and the basis of countless retellings in Cold War spy fiction and nonfiction alike. Recruited straight out of university by a Soviet intelligence service cunningly aware of the British knack for channeling promising young men into positions of power and influence, Maclean—along with fellow agents Burgess, John Cairncross, Anthony Blunt, and the infamous Kim Philby—systematically drained the West of its most vital secrets from the middle of the 1930s until a postwar FBI decryption operation began to dig out the moles.