Letter from retired defence attaché to @FinancialTimes shows that #JohnLeCarré didn't just make up all his character types (h/t @simonc): 👇
"It was not until I returned to the #UK on the eve of our withdrawal from the #EU, a manoeuvre which greatly emboldened those in #Moscow, that I understood how our society had changed in the years I was serving overseas.
All was subjugated to the #City, all served the interests of our lucrative status as a safe haven for corrupt, and corrupting, wealth."
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@BenjaminPohl @FinancialTimes @simonc Just started the German version of "Agent running in the field" - and this sounds precisely like something the main character Nat could say.
