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»Does anyone remember how we got dragged into the Iraq war – apart obviously from the dodgy dossier composed with the complicity of MI6? We went to war on the strength of information supplied by two ingenious fabricators.«

John le Carré

The influence of spies has become too much: Author John le Carré on secret courts, surveillance and the excessive influence of the CIA and MI6 on democratic institutions. His essay at The Guardian.

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»What have I learned over the last 50 years? Come to think of it, not much. Just that the morals of the secret world are very like our own.«

John le Carré

After a decade in the intelligence service, John le Carré‘s political disgust and personal confusion ‘exploded’ in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Fifty years later he asks how much has changed. His essay at The Guardian.

P.S.: You can read an extract from the spy writer’s latest novel A Delicate Truth here.

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»When I was growing up, my favorite book was Erich Kästner‘s Emil and the Detectives, about a gang of kids on the heels of a thief in 1920s Berlin. To this day, there’s nothing I enjoy more than a pacey thriller set in my adopted city.«

Jane Paulick

Jane Paulick with an essay about spies and serial killers in Berlin. Read more at dw.de.

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»Clare Mulley has done a dogged piece of detective work piecing together Christine’s ultimately tragic life.«

Nigel Jones about the biography The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley. His review at telegraph.co.uk.

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»What’s interesting is how so much of what’s great about Where Eagles Dare the movie has its genesis in Where Eagles Dare the novel.«

Louis XIV, “The Sun King” (Nick Jones) about Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean. His view at Existential Ennui.

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