Matt Earls

“Queen Elizabeth I’s Sir Francis Walsingham was one of history’s legendary spymasters. Much later came the romances of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, of John Buchan’s Richard Hannay, of dashing ‘clubland heroes’ who played chess for England with a thousand live pieces across a board that spanned continents. A wartime British secret servant observed: ‘Practically every officer I met in that concern, at home and abroad, was, like me, imagining himself as Hannay.”
― Max Hastings, The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 – The New York Times Bestselling Account of Espionage That Shaped World War II