Sunday, January 30, 1972: 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead and another 13 wounded when British soldiers opened fire during a march in Derry, Northern Ireland. The original 1972 inquiry exonerated the British; but after many years of protest by families of the victims, a second inquiry was begun in March 2000. This Saville Inquiry has heard evidence from over one thousand witnesses.

In this book, Richard Norton-Taylor reveals the secrets of his 40-year career as a journalist covering the world of spies and their masters in Whitehall. His special targets have always been the security and intelligence agencies and the Ministry of Defence, institutions that often hide behind the cloak of national security to protect themselves from embarrassment and from being held to account. Encouraged by his trusted contacts in intelligence agencies and Whitehall departments, Norton-Taylor was among the few journalists consistently to attack the...