Why did he do it? Why exchange the louche luxury of London and Washington for the drab, isolated world of Soviet Russia? Guy Burgess is the least-known, and the most fascinating, of the Cambridge Spy Ring. Andrew Lownie has taken immense trouble tracking the life of this contradictory figure, interviewing friends, enemies and acquaintances and researching hitherto unused archival material. Locations range from the glamour of the Ritz Bar and the clubs of St James’s to the seediest of Soho bars and strip joints, but the story really begins at Trinity College, Cambridge. Here in 1933 the unlikely Old Etonian was sponsored by Anthony Blunt to be a member of the Apostles debating society whose core interest was Marxist politics.  Scruffy, even dirty, a lifelong homosexual whose dev