Agent running in the field
A veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, who is assigned to command a lesser band of spies, hatches a covert operation.
Stats for nerds
1recommend
2mentions
2people
2020–2022years
50% recommend50% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- Favorite Technical: The Pragmatic Programmer. This is something that I should have read much earlier.
Favorite Fiction: Pale Fire. Just pure astonishment. Left me speechless with how he made the language sing.
Also great (in no particular order):
- The Sewing Girl's Tale (non-fiction)
- The Odyssey (poem)
- Tropic of Cancer (novel)
- Tenth of December (short story collection).
- Endurance (non-fiction)
- The Billion Dollar Spy (non-fiction)
- Agent Sonya (non-fiction)
- Agent Running in the Field (novel)
- Little Dorrit (novel)
To be honest, I love most of the stuff I read this year. Only a handful of books I didn't like enough to read through.
- I've read and enjoyed quite a few of his books and also enjoyed the TV adaptations. I happened to pick up a copy of Agent Running in the Field in a second hand bookshop last week so I'm looking forward to reading that in his memory.
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