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Jan 6, 20221 min read
931. Graham Greene - Our Man In Havana
One of his ‘entertainments’ which I don’t on the whole enjoy. The conceit is quite amusing, a vacuum salesman in Havana is recruited by...
Aug 17, 20171 min read
514. Graham Greene - The Third Man
During a sleepless night on 15 August, I began re-reading Patrick Gale’s Rough Music on my kindle as a bit of emergency late night...
Nov 30, 20161 min read
449. John Le Carré - Call For The Dead
I think this may be his first novel (see 447); I have read it before but always enjoy it. The plot is as described above, although with...
Nov 20, 20161 min read
446. Charles Cumming - A Colder War
The 2nd in the Thomas Kell series. This was weird because I had read the book before, and spent a lot of the time reading it puzzling...
Feb 21, 20131 min read
80. Arnaldur Indridason - The Draining Lake
Fantastic book about Icelandic left-wing students encouraged to study in Leipzig in Cold War; the body of one is found murdered in the...
Nov 12, 20121 min read
55. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - The Man Who Went Up In Smoke
The 2nd book in the series. Wonderful descriptions of Budapest, when Beck sent over there and very much a spy story while he is there...