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I admire the brisk, light, clean prose style on display here. Less 'thick' even than that found in the wonderfully airy memoir of his colleague and contemporary in the Russias at the time, Bruce Lockhart. Unlike Lockhart, Hill was not a diplomat nor part of any legation, trade delegation, or mission; he was an unabashed British agent who came from a military background before his posting.

From the first chapter of his own memoir, he openly discusses espionage in general and then starts detailing
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