Games of Intelligence, The Ultra Spy and Churchill’s Secret Agent, Codename ‘Jay Bee’
Nigel West is the pseudonym for Rupert Allason, a conservative MP for the Home Counties who has written a number of popular but controversial histories of Britain’s intelligence and security organizations. He also has written a spy novel.
The Norman Conundrum
Herbert Norman, missionary son, one time Communist, distinguished foreign service officer, important advisor to SCAP on Japanese constitutional reconstruction, and protégé of Lester Pearson, has become an object of Canadian attention 30 years after his death by suicide. Two recent books, one…
An Interview with James Barros
James Barros is the author of a controversial book, No Sense of Evil, on Herbert Norman. He lives in a row house on a cobble-stone street that looks more Bostonian than Toronto. These past couple of years he has immersed himself in…
Herbert Norman
Born in Japan, the son of missionaries, Herbert Norman joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1939 and served in Tokyo, Wellington and Cairo, in the latter two posts as Canadian High Commissioner and Ambassador respectively. While posted to Cairo he commited suicide…
A Perfect Spy
John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) has done it again in his latest novel, A Perfect Spy (Book-of-the-Month Club main selection). I found it among the best of his books I have read or seen portrayed on film and TV. A…
