Nigel West

Nigel West is the pen name of Rupert Allason, a British intelligence specialist and critically acclaimed author born in London in 1951.[1][2] Since 1980, he has written or coauthored more than 30 books on espionage and intelligence, including edited anthologies such as The Faber Book of Espionage (1993) and The Faber Book of Treachery (1995).[1] He was voted 'the experts' expert' by a panel of spy writers in The Observer in 1986 and received the U.S. Association of Former Intelligence Officers' Lifetime Literature Achievement Award in 2003.[5]