Ashenden, Or: The British AgentAshenden: The British Agent is founded on Maugham's experiences in the English Intelligence Department during World War I, but rearranged for the purposes of fiction. This fascinating book contains the most expert stories of espionage ever written. For a period of time after it was first published the book became official required reading for persons entering the secret service. The plot follows the imaginary John Ashenden who during World War I is a spy for British Intelligence. He is sent first to Geneva and later to Russia. Instead of one story from start to finish, the chapters contain individual stories involving many different characters. All of the people whom Ashenden meets during his travels have their own reason for being involved in the spy game, and each are more complex than they first look. |
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... notion that it will survive the other . Already it is getting a little difficult to care much what Russians of a class now extinct were like fifty years ago and the anecdote in Chekov's stories is not as a rule absorbing enough ( as the ...
... notion that it will survive the other . Already it is getting a little difficult to care much what Russians of a class now extinct were like fifty years ago and the anecdote in Chekov's stories is not as a rule absorbing enough ( as the ...
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... notion what other game was being played under the rose . It might be that knowing he was a British agent the Prince and his secretary had desired to see him in order to find out what sort of person he was . Ashenden had felt for a day ...
... notion what other game was being played under the rose . It might be that knowing he was a British agent the Prince and his secretary had desired to see him in order to find out what sort of person he was . Ashenden had felt for a day ...
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... notion flashed across his mind : he gave Caypor a look and saw that the same notion had come to him . It had occurred to them at the same instant that it would be a very good plan for Ashenden's teacher to be Mrs. Caypor . " I asked our ...
... notion flashed across his mind : he gave Caypor a look and saw that the same notion had come to him . It had occurred to them at the same instant that it would be a very good plan for Ashenden's teacher to be Mrs. Caypor . " I asked our ...
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