num_pages: 192
description: An autobiography by the brother of Donald Maclean, the spy who defected to the USSR in 1951. Alan Maclean lost his Foreign Office job, his family suffered public humiliation, and he succumbed to alcoholism, but later became a prominent figure in the publishing industry as an editor at Macmillan.
language: English
title: No, I Tell a Lie, It Was the Tuesday: A Trudge through the Life and Times of Alan Maclean
titlecomplete: No, I Tell a Lie, It Was the Tuesday: A Trudge through the Life and Times of Alan Maclean
publisher: Kyle Cathie Ltd