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Exit the Spymaster

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Exit the Spymaster

And a Trumpkin tries to find an exit.

Jonathan V. Last
Dec 14, 2020
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Exit the Spymaster

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1. Spies Like Us

John le Carré passed away this weekend at the age of 89. JLC didn’t invent the spy novel, but it’s fair to say that he was the godfather of the modern spy genre. Whether you loved him or not, he was the measuring stick.

Le Carré worked in the Service, both in MI5 and MI6. He came of age dur…

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