Andrew Sinclair is a former Guardsman, a novelist – the author, once upon a time, of The Breaking of Bumbo – and much besides.
The secret policeman who met me off the plane was charming, black and experienced. His declared name was Carlos.
‘We are so glad that you are giving your son to the Revolution, Dr Sinclair.’
‘If it is a son.’
‘He will be. And he will fight for the Revolution.’
‘Yes,’ I said. ‘For the Revolution. The revolution in my country, which needs...
In a 1982 essay called ‘My War’ Paul Fussell described how – at the age of 20 – he became a full-time ironist: one who, by means of his experience in combat, had learned...
The vast Soviet-bloc intelligence operation in the West is commonly supposed to consist mainly of running illegals, moles and other agents. In fact, the KGB probably spends more of its time...
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