'Old Craw'

[Feliks, Moderator]

'Old Craw' in John LeCarre's "Honourable Schoolboy" (my favorite espionage novel) was modeled on real-life foreign correspondent Richard Hughes.

Graham Greene also tapped into his life story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

[Greg]

Interesting, thanks Feliks.
The Greene reference, could he be Fowler?, Fowler being English and Hughes was Australian.

[Feliks, Moderator]

It should have said in the article, did it not? I didn't have time to re-read it prior to posting.

I told y'all about how I traveled to Hong Kong specifically to visit locations described in the book, I hope. Mighty thrilling.

[Roger]

Gerald Dawson, a character in my latest novel THE ALGERIAN HOAX, is based on Gerald Utting, an Australian photojournalist and colleague at the Toronto Star. He was an ebullient, cynical realist who among other achievements managed to get himself arrested by Idi Amin's henchmen. In the novel he helps Michael Vaux get out of a few tight squeezes while running a seedy bar in Marseille and doing odd jobs for Vauxhall Cross [MI6].