Sweet Tooth
An Anglican bishop's daughter gets in over her head with British Intelligence in this John le Carre-esque caper from the author of Atonement. Brash, bookish Serena just might make a perfect spy-if she can keep her heart under wraps.
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What Hacker News says
- I own a copy, it's a fascinating read. The British author Ian McEwan mentions that Saunders' book influenced his novel "Sweet Tooth" [0], which itself is a fine read.
- "Sweet Tooth" Ian McEwan: CIA, MI5 and MI6 are sponsoring many writers, such as some companies sponsor open source devs
- Ian McEwan's "Sweet Tooth" [0] was partly inspired by the CIA's secret funding of Encounter magazine [1].
He also makes reference to to Frances Stonor Saunders' [2] book "Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War" [3] which is about CIA funded cultural manipulation (on my bookshelf, but only dipped into it a bit).
Fascinating stuff.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Tooth_(novel)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounter_(magazine)
