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the Asiatic lion. Power and courage make this animal, not the Tiger, India's national enemy. These are the formidable beasts that once ranged across the lands of the Bible that fought Samson and devoured Christians in Roman arenas. Now they are only found in these parched scrub forests. Kim Philby was the most notorious defector and Soviet mull in the history of the British Secret Service agent, double agent, traitor and enigma. In the early years of the Cold War, he betrayed every secret of allied operations to the Russians. Philby's two closest friends in this dark and secretive world, Nicholas Elliott of My six and James Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief both thought that they knew Philby better than anyone. But they were to discover that they had not known him at all. It's two o'clock in the afternoon in Leeds, and, as usual, Tony is off to a slow start. He's been living on his own since he was 16. That is, until his mate John John came to stay the night a month ago. Tony has never even tried to get a job before, but now he's got some details from the job centre. All he's got to do is wait till John John is up and out of the way, and then he's going to get started. There are people on our planet who were more at home in water than on land. In a distant corner of the Western Pacific lies the Coral Triangle. These waters are the richest on earth, and the people here have adapted to ocean life like no one else.