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Robert Hutton

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All of Robert Hutton’s career moves have been accidental. He started as a computer scientist but fell into journalism, and then stumbled across a true WW2 spy story that so excited him he wrote a book about it, Agent Jack.

His new book, The Illusionist, is about Dudley Clarke, the eccentric genius who realised how the Allies could use stage magic to deceive the Nazis.

Robert’s day job is as political satirist for The Critic magazine, and he hosts the podcast War Movie Theatre.

He lives in south east London with his wife and sons.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 1,058 ratings · 152 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter 3.71 avg rating — 715 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler 3.98 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News 3.53 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Would They Lie to You? 3.69 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Robert Hutton made a comment on JANET’s review of The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler " Hi, thank you for reading the book, and I hope you enjoyed it. But I don't think I did say this. Is it possible you misread the Author's Note? The poi ...more "
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Robert Hutton made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please bring the US edition of my book onto my page topic " Hi, this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... is the US edition of this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... But I can't combine them, ...more "
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“In 1942, Liddell confided a worry to his diary: ‘There is no doubt that the Russians are far better in the matter of espionage than any other country in the world.’ He continued, ‘I am perfectly certain that they are well bedded down here and that we should be making more active investigations. They will be a great source of trouble to us when the war is over.”
― Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

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“Roger’s view is that the country is full of evilly-intentioned persons, but that there is no necessity to drag them out of their holes. They had much better be left to rot in obscurity, and will be swamped by the common sense of the community as a whole.’ As the operation continued, so did the debate within MI5 about its future.”
― Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

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“Worse, it had revealed something about Britain that few wanted to acknowledge. The country told itself that, while other nations might be willing to goose-step or bend to the will of a dictator, such things were not in the British nature. But Roberts had found ordinary British men and women who didn’t just privately wish Hitler well, but were prepared to risk their lives to help him. Behind them were surely many more who would cheerfully have gone along with fascism if it had seemed the safest course.”
― Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

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