tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post3415687164740096524..comments2024-03-29T00:34:36.786-05:00Comments on Book Chase: A Spy Among FriendsSam http://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-28952577305177022602015-06-04T13:41:40.167-05:002015-06-04T13:41:40.167-05:00This was my first experience with a Ben MacIntyre ...This was my first experience with a Ben MacIntyre book. I'm impressed with his style and the level of detail he included in this one, so I'm very open to reading more of his work.Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-75437615630923909402015-06-04T08:44:37.606-05:002015-06-04T08:44:37.606-05:00This is on my list. I love Ben MacIntyre's wa...This is on my list. I love Ben MacIntyre's way of presenting history, and I'm working my way through his nonfiction slowly.<br /><br /> I just finished the fictional <i>A Kind of Grief</i> last week; it has a connection to the Cambridge Five, and for a while I thought the unidentified character was Philby, but it must have been Maclean. jenclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06046532245054911248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-38416364174481716282015-06-02T19:50:51.506-05:002015-06-02T19:50:51.506-05:00I suppose he was a sociopath but at the end of his...I suppose he was a sociopath but at the end of his life he got lonely enough to try to contact Elliott for a reconciliation of some sort - and he really wanted (and got his wish) that his current wife (the one he was married to when he fled) be allowed to join him in Russia. I find myself really despising this fool.<br />Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-1967183454627794332015-06-02T19:33:12.543-05:002015-06-02T19:33:12.543-05:00It is alarming to see such subterfuge and callousn...It is alarming to see such subterfuge and callousness, a sociopath of sorts? Teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06666609213171939599noreply@blogger.com