Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Prisoners of the Castle, The Spy and the Traitor, Rogue Heroes, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and A Spy Among Friends. His last Calgary appearance was in 2024, for The Siege, the definitive history of the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980.
He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times (UK) and has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. Several of his books have been made into films and television series, and Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.
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