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The book release comes a month before the Democratic convention.But Clinton worked his magic to get Monica, 'the Blue Pass Princess,' back in his arms.After Byrne complained, Monica was transferred to the East Executive Building and wwas a Social Office intern under Hillary.'You had to depress keys for a specific length of time and there were precise pauses between numbers,' Byrne explains.

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Byrne was incensed to learn that Monica had Bill's 'secret number' – 'so secret that it required not only a four-digit pass code.Agents witnessed Bill and Monica 'embracing, making out, or on the Oval Office Desk'.

Clinton's intern Monica Lewinsky had special access to the Oval Office for at least two years.

Ex-Secret Service officer Gary Byrne was posted outside Bill Clinton's Oval Office in 1990s and writes about what he saw in bombshell book.

Here they will get them.EXCLUSIVE: Secret Service officer tells how Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky were caught having sex on Oval Office desk and how the intern was transferred to work for HILLARY - but the President brought her back to the West Wing in a PAID position Its intricacies, the pleasures of which have been forgotten by so much "literary" fiction, are what readers want from this genre. Simply a Very Bad Man.īut then plot is what it is all about, and plot, fiercely paced and elaborately developed, is what this novel really gives you. Here, Harland's quarry is a representative of unmitigated evil: gunrunner, torturer and organizer of genocide. In the old days, the Soviet spymaster was a distorted reflection of his British antagonist. And the collapse of the Soviet Union has left some novelistic problems. Harland sometimes seems but the means to Porter's narrative ends. He cannot, though, bring off the trick that le Carré managed with Smiley - an emotionally stunted character who was therefore all the more intriguing. Porter respects his genre, updating a convention here, cheating a conjecture there, but doing some kind of justice to the reader's expectations. Much of this will sound half-familiar to aficionados of spy thrillers, and this is just the book's recommendation. Harland finds that his old Czech secret service file records his "predisposition to melancholy" - an occupational requirement, we might think, for a literary spy.

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The most satisfying spy fiction has always entwined personal and professional deceptions in this way. He finds himself discovering the truth about his own "spy's life", and about the woman he loved. The new narrative opportunity, for novelists as much as for historians, is in the opening of communist archives (Harris's Archangel was all about the new availability of documents from Stalin's Russia.) Porter's sleuth is also taken into files never seen before, this time of the Czech secret service. His journeys across Europe are into his own history. He is forced back on his own tracks, to Czechoslovakia, to meet up again with an old flame who worked for the Communists, and to Bosnia, to a confrontation with his intelligent, vicious former interrogator. (Engagingly, this middle-aged hero is less adept at leaping, running or shooting than any of his friends or foes.) MI6, his former employers, seem not quite on his side. And no sooner has Harland recovered from the plane crash than he is being beaten or shot by unknown enemies. Porter adds scars from a cancer operation. He still bears the wounds of his torture after being caught on an operation in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Velvet Revolution. The battered agent dragged out of retirement is a conventional character, but rarely has he been more battered and bruised than here. It soon becomes clear that the crash was no accident, and Harland must pursue a conspiracy that returns him to spy-land. One of those killed, an old friend and once a fellow agent, was investigating war crimes in Bosnia and, by chance, has left him with clues to a terrible secret. The plane carrying him and fellow UN officials has crashed. On the first page, he is clutching for life in New York's freezing East River. His new novel may be self-consciously up-to-date (notably in its clever uses of e-mail and computer hacking), but it forces its hero, Robert Harland, back to the chilly communist past and his own life as a spy. Two years ago, Henry Porter published Remembrance Day, an ambitious thriller about tracking down a ruthless terrorist. The trail-blazer is Robert Harris, whose Archangel revisited the cold war.