A Perfect Spy traces the rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Washington and finally on the run in England Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage. Where no-one is safe from betrayal, not even his father.
With his father out of prison and full of schemes for exploiting the war situation, Magnus is able to get a public-school education and later travels to post-war Europe, where a beautiful aristocrat swindles him and he falls in a British intelligence officer, Jack Brotherhood, who encourages him to spy on his friends at a Swiss university - the beginning of Magnus's life in espionage.—greenf74