Real Tigers by Mick Herron / A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carre
The world of spying is endlessly fascinating to writers, perhaps because – since no-one knows what they really do – you can have them do anything. The fact that nobody referred to MI6 as ‘the Circus’ before John Le CarrĂ© thought of doing so is irrelevant: the Circus it has become. In Real Tigers, Mick…