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Spy Thatcher
Those in the Know have long known about - and kept frantically quiet about - Jesmond Barker, the Man Beneath the Cork-Fringed Hat.
Barker the barking mad obsessive (but how else to survive in the paranoid world of MI5 or 6). Barker, probably the only man to spend a day crouched in under-desk surveillance as the Wright denunciations were actually being penned.
'Jezebel' Barker who felt the rough edge of Anthony Blunt's tongue - probing his deaf ear. Who might have heard Lord Mountbatten planning a military coup except that he fell out of the cupboard at the wrong moment...
Fearless investigative journalist William Rushton stumbled across Barker on the floor of a drinking club in Soho's Filth Street. A confused and embittered figure (Barker), he was fianlly persuaded that it was his patriotic duty to go public, name names, earn large sums of money, set the record straight etc etc.
A satirical parody of Peter Wright's 'Spy Catcher'
Barker the barking mad obsessive (but how else to survive in the paranoid world of MI5 or 6). Barker, probably the only man to spend a day crouched in under-desk surveillance as the Wright denunciations were actually being penned.
'Jezebel' Barker who felt the rough edge of Anthony Blunt's tongue - probing his deaf ear. Who might have heard Lord Mountbatten planning a military coup except that he fell out of the cupboard at the wrong moment...
Fearless investigative journalist William Rushton stumbled across Barker on the floor of a drinking club in Soho's Filth Street. A confused and embittered figure (Barker), he was fianlly persuaded that it was his patriotic duty to go public, name names, earn large sums of money, set the record straight etc etc.
A satirical parody of Peter Wright's 'Spy Catcher'
- GenresHumor
128 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
8 people want to read
About the author
William Rushton
62 books1 followerLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.
He is honoured by a Comic Heritage blue plaque at Mornington Crescent tube station, a reference to the game Mornington Crescent on the BBC radio comedy show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, on which he was a regular panellist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_R...
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.
He is honoured by a Comic Heritage blue plaque at Mornington Crescent tube station, a reference to the game Mornington Crescent on the BBC radio comedy show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, on which he was a regular panellist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_R...
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August 22, 2025
An alright book. I appreciated the humor though admittedly most of it flew over my head.
July 17, 2012
This is a spoof on the Spy Catcher book that was banned in England. It was moderately funny only because there was little else to be had in the way of reading material. Writing this summary 2 years after makes descriptions difficult.
July 31, 2019
A very funny take off of Peter Wright's book.
February 23, 2020
A nice novel
February 15, 2012
A Satire on the original Spycatcher
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