Leo Marks

About

Head of agents' codes at the Special Operations Executive. Silk and Cyanide is his memoir of the work, and of the agents he coded for who did not return.

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Between Silk and Cyanide 1998 · 614 pages

SOE's 22-year-old codemaster fights to replace poem codes that were killing his agents — including the one he wrote for the girl he loved.

Memoir

Events Covered