Journalist, novelist, patriot, spy
Stella Rimington
2 March 2013
The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham Michael Jago
Biteback Publishing, pp.308, £20, ISBN: 9781849545136
When I was a new MI5 recruit, working in Leconfield House in 1970, there was a group of middle-aged men who came and went at unusual times of the day,… Read more
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