The Private Life of Spies

His name was Fergus Andrew Mactavish and he was a farmer on the Ardnamurchan peninsula of Argyll. He went to his grave, unexposed, in 2003. At that simple ceremony of farewell, conducted under a West Highland sky filled with sharp, April light, only two of those present were aware of any claim that Fergus might have to be listed in the company of some of the century's best-known spies. And those two would never speak about it. Never.