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"In 25 years the RCMP has caught only one illegal – one real spy. Not a hell of a lot to brag about, is it?" Inspector DV of the RCMP Security SevicesIs this poor record connected with S, the former director of the RCMP Security Services? Is it possible that S was a double – or a triple agent? Why was he quietly pensioned off after a top-level investigation by the Canadian government? Could S have been the mysterious "fourth man" of the Burgess-Maclean-Philby affair?In pursuit of the truth, author Ian Adams, follows the trail of the brilliant S from Chile, where an RCMP office has unwittingly disclosed information, to Austraila and Canada. It is during this investigation that the author becomes more and more obsessed with S as a portrait of the man emerges from his exotic mistress, his fellow workers and goverment officials. So also emerges a fascinating study of the inner workings of RCMP Intelligence – a study which will both distrub and intrigue the reader.Did a double agent control RCMP Intelligence? S, Portrait of a Spy, is a book about the RCMP which the reader will be unable to put down. Was S the "fourth man"?