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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…

September 24, 2018 in Spy games.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance / Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance (Ogden Nash)

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