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message 2: by Bryan (new)

Bryan Is there some reason "Tinker Tailor" is listed 3 times?


message 3: by Richard (new)

Richard Ferguson I think two people added it after it was already there.


message 4: by Jonathan (new)

Jonathan I'm surprised Robert Littel is not on this list. I think his book The Company and The Amateur are two of the finest spy novels ever.


message 5: by William (last edited May 29, 2018 02:03PM) (new)

William I read a great Cold War spy story back in the late 1980s, but I can't remember the name. I remember this line:

"From the red gold, keep thy finger" - something about Russian gold that was tainted or radioactive or something about "Red Mercury" too.

Lucy Ashton's Song
Sir Walter Scott
from The Bride of Lammermoor

Look not thou on beauty's charming,
Sit thou still when kings are arming,
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,
Speak not when the people listens,
Stop thine ear against the singer,
From the red gold keep thy finger;
Vacant heart and hand and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.


message 6: by Elaine (new)

Elaine Jonathan wrote: "I'm surprised Robert Littel is not on this list. I think his book The Company and The Amateur are two of the finest spy novels ever." It is listed!!!!!


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