Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - When Theo Gittings, a distinguished British author, is been found dead in a squalid boardinghouse, his affairs are to be settled by his cousin who discovers a journal which reveals Gittings to have a double life of sexual subterfuge and political treason. When a student at Cambridge, he became one of a group that included Kim Philby and Guy Burgess. As his cousin begins to piece together Theo's hidden life, he discover layer after layer of deceit. The fourth novel by this English film director (among them 'The L-Shaped Room,' 'Of Human Bondage,' and 'The Stepford Wives' ), award-winning screenwriter, actor and even a bookshop owner. 474 p. ISBN: 0-385155271.