Agent Lavender Quotes

“Benjamin Croker. Don’t get many of your lot down here, you know.’ Whether he meant Prime Ministers, KGB agents or Labour Party members was unclear, but all three were equally true. Harold ploughed on.”
― Tom Black, Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson

“James Bond’s latest outing, The Spy Who Loved Me, had featured an ill-advised and hastily-written fifth act ‘twist’ whereby the unnamed PM, played by a no-name Yorkshire character actor, had absconded and sought to take ‘State Secrets’ with him to the Russians. Roger Moore had chased him down–improbably, in a speedboat–and seen to it that he would face justice. The critics were calling for the same fate to befall the screenwriters.”
― Tom Black, Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson

“Do you know why we have a constitution, Sir John? Don’t answer, I am asking a rhetorical question. We have a constitution, of sorts, so that we can stave off revolution by ensuring that the common man feels that he has a government that, even though he may not have voted for it, he can understand why it exists.”
― Tom Black, Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson