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Unsure if I'm missing something here. This was sold to me as a piece of narrative non fiction about the life of a double agent working for the CIA. So far this has just been an enormous list of names of people and spy-related goings on in Moscow... Is this the sort of stuff everyone's dad reads and goes "wow, cool, history, spies" ??

You have a wife. Two sons. No trade. No brass—
That's what you got for Christmas in 1962. You got done—
Finished off and washed up, before your time—
But you will never run a pub. You will never own a newsagent's shop—
Instead, you will have your revenge—
That is how you shall live—
In place of a life, revenge.

'To try and find out what Americans mean is almost impossible because there are so many things they do not want to face.'

Saul Adler is a bloke with a lot going on.