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cool breeze
Jul 28, 2018 rated it liked it
The main character, Charlie Muffin, is delightful, but most of the other characters are cartoonish clichés. Some have inappropriately compared this series to John le Carré and Len Deighton, but it falls far short of those masters in its frequently unrealistic depiction of tradecraft and diplomacy. Even second-tier espionage novelists like Adam Hall do a far better job on this score. Perhaps this should have been expected, as Freemantle’s background was as a reporter for the disreputable tabloid ...more
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