Nigel West

Nigel West est le nom de plume de Rupert Allason, né le 8 novembre 1951, ancien membre du parlement britannique et conservateur de 1987 à 1997, historien et écrivain spécialiste de l'espionnage.

Œuvres

• Spy!, par Richard Deacon, avec Nigel West, London, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1980.
• MI5: British Security Service Operations, 1909-1945, New York, Stein and Day, 1982, 1981.
• A Matter of Trust: MI5, 1945-72, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982; publié aux États-Unis The Circus: MI5, operations 1945-1972, New York, Stein and Day, 1983.
• MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations: 1909-45, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
• Unreliable Witness: Espionage Myths of the Second World War, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
• The Branch: A History of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
• Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II, avec Juan Pujol, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985.
• GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War, 1900-86, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
• Molehunt: The Full Story of the Soviet Spy in MI5, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
• The Friends: Britain's Post-War Secret Intelligence operations, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
• Games of Intelligence: The Classified Conflict of International Espionage, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.
• The Blue List (roman), London: Secker & Warburg, 1989, (ISBN 0-4365-6602-8)
• Cuban Bluff (roman), London: Secker & Warburg, 1990.
• Seven Spies Who Changed the World, London: Secker & Warburg, 1991.
• Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organisation, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992.
• Murder in the Commons (roman), London, 1992
• The Faber Book of Espionage: Faber & Faber, 1994
• Murder in the Lords (roman), London, 1994
• The Secret War for the Falklands: SAS, MI6 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost , Little Brown, 1997, (ISBN 0-7515-2071-3)
• The Faber Book of Treachery, Faber & Faber, 1998
• The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets Exposed by the KGB Archives, London: HarperCollins, 1999, 1998.
• Counterfeit Spies: Time Warner Paperbacks, 1999
• VENONA: The Greatest Secret of the Cold War: HarperCollins, 2000, (ISBN 0-00-653071-0)
• The Third Secret: The CIA, Solidarity and the KGB's Plot to Kill the Pope, HarperCollins, 2000.
• Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project, New York, Enigma Books, 2004.
• The Guy Liddell Diaries: 1939-1942 Volume 1, Frank Cass Publishers, 2005
• The Guy Liddell Diaries: 1942-1945 Volume 2, Routlege, London, 2005
• Historical Dictionary of British Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, London, 2005
• Mask: MI5's Penetration of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Frank Cass Publishers, 2005
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain's Intelligence Agency, MI6, Greenhill Books, London, 2006.