The recent spy ring brouhaha has reminded us all of a Cold War time – not long ago – when “Russians were red and found under your bed”…
John Le Carre was the master of the murky world of espionage fiction in the `Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy` era, but he’s still writing insightful and thoughtful spy stories today…
If you want to read more about the real thing, well, try here: SECRET BUTTON
And don’t forget Bexley’s very own Soviet 'mole' - The Spy who came in from the Co-Op…
Mind you, if you want a REALLY weird true spy story, a long, long way removed from Bexley, try The Eitingons – what a family! Talk about fact being stranger than fiction…
Still on the subject of fiction, my own book spies are reporting good things about a new novel – The Spy Game by Georgina Harding…
Can you recommend any other spy stories? Don't keep them a secret.
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The Blogbrary has been advised that we’ve made no mention of Christopher Andrew’s The Defence of the Realm: the authorized history of MI5 – “a thorough but very readable study”.
Good idea!
And, we’ve got two or three copies in stock in Bexley Libraries, so do take a look.
TTFN
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