Title: The Reality of Spying
Product review: I found what I liked most about this novel was its portrayal of the mundanity and unremarkableness of much of what a spy does. Most stories concentrate on the excitement and the intrigue of the espionage game but this treats it more realistically as a long winded grind of a process, punctuated with isolated instances of action and adrenalin. These spies have real lives that are totally unromantic but everything has a context, everything has a beginning and all actions lead to consequences. Wilson's spies are at turns both critical and meaningless to the cold war that spawned them. It spans about 50 years and ends as you would think a spy's life would, and I loved the authenticity of it.
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