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I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

When I mentioned maybe doing a year of spycraft reading, Justin (my partner) highly recommended this one, based on Maugham's experiences during the first World War. Interconnected stories, it was excellent! Bonus for being a very vintage copy, although I alternate reading it with an ebook.

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David Tennant is my favorite Doctor & one of my favorite actors, so I jumped at the chance to listen to him narrate. And who doesn't love James Bond?

Me. I don't love James Bond. Not as books - I enjoy the films as much as the next person. The books are dated & problematic in places, but that's understandable. IMO, the action scenes translate so much better to film, even with such a great narrator.

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Can't concentrate on anything else at the moment, so the spycraft reading continues. The first le Carre/George Smiley. I'm in.

Thank heavens for Penguin books. These green paper backs keep the older crime, thriller alive and in book books.
This is set in the 60s and 70s Britain. Kept me reading. Certainly a labyrinth of a story.

My #12Booksof2024 for July is a gorgeous cynical thriller set in postwar Germany, with a villain who would be right at home in our current crop of "populist" hatemongers. Thrilling, thoughtful, worrying.

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Good times! Definitely lighter in tone than some of the entries in this series. For all that the stakes include threats of everything from ruination of reputations, careers, to bodily injury and death, I'm pretty sure the body count was non-existent. 1/?

Yeah that sounds about right. 🤦🏼‍♂️😬

This library hold came in, + I started the book, as the current events in Syria hit the headlines. A very good spy thriller set in the country 10 years ago as revolution threatens the Assad regime who are experimenting with poison gas. A cia operative runs a mole + falls for her as she spys on the regime. The hunt for the mole, discovery of the hidden weapons is well done. The news + revelation of horror, however, made it an uncomfortable read