South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that […]

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

A Spy Alone Charles Beaumont London: Canelo, 2023, £9.99 (p/b) Robin Ramsay This is only the second novel I have reviewed in Lobster.1 The cover and the author blurb tells us that author Beaumont is a ‘former MI6 operative’. ‘Operative’? Why not ‘officer’? The author tells me the word was chosen by the publisher. […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 49 If MI6 were never interested in Johnson for his own sake, they would certainly have been interested in his rather pally relationship with a known Russian spy. See either man. Chilcot There is so much to be said about Sir John Chilcot’s Inquiry into the Iraq War. It ironically delivered a political Weapon […]

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