Agent Running in the Field

by John le Carré

But to the ear of my daughter Stephanie, a sworn leveller, my guess is that Ed’s diction would pass as just about all right, meaning no direct evidence of a private education.

Moscow Centre is running us absolutely ragged in London, as everywhere else,

his fingertips together in a wedding arch,

Putin had always been a fifth-rate spy. Now he was a spy turned autocrat who interpreted all life in terms of konspiratsia. Thanks to Putin and his gang of unredeemed Stalinists, Russia was not going forward to a bright future, but backwards into her dark, delusional past.

I had wanted to tell him I was a decent man, but it was too late.