Peter Wright Peter Wright Peter Maurice Wright (9 August 191627 April 1995) was a principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book "Spycatcher", written with Paul Greengrass, became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. "Spycatcher" was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. He is said to have been influenced in his counterespionage activity by James Jesus Angleton, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief from 1954 to 1975. Wright was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, a boarding independent school for
Peter S. Prescott Peter S. Prescott Peter S. Prescott was an American author and book critic. He was the senior book reviewer at "Newsweek" for more than two decades. In January, 1970, Prescott published "A World of Our Own: Notes on Life and Learning in a Boys' Preparatory School," which described his alma mater, The Choate School, (now Choate Rosemary Hall). In the April 10, 1978 issue of "Newsweek", he accused John Gardner of plagiarism, citing a previously published article by Sumner J. Ferris. In 1981 he publish "The Child Savers," which won the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights