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The astonishing story of John Stonehouse, the spy MP who betrayed his country and faked his own death


The astonishing story of John Stonehouse, the spy MP who betrayed his country and faked his own death
It was the epic scandal of a brilliant but brittle man – no wonder a new book on the cabinet minister is already being adapted for TV
25 July 2021 • 5:00am
Throughout it all, John Stonehouse inspired devotion from the beautiful and mobilised ardent defenders in the court of public opinion
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There are some characters so extraordinary, so defiant of those norms of behaviour that bind the rest of us, that they dazzle and destroy in equal measure. John Stonehouse – British cabinet minister and Czech spy, seducer and betrayer, humanitarian defender of far-off lives and thoughtless wrecker of those nearby – was one such. To read the new account of his rise and astonishing fall, written by his great-nephew Julian Hayes (a lawyer whose father was himself a key Stonehouse casualty), is to be reminded just how far the trail of destruction ran. ....

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