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Review title: A fictional biography
Product review: what do old spies do when they are no longer needed? We live in interesting times. Borders are changing. Countries emerge and disappear. What was needed yesterday is not what is needed today. The novel follows the life of Ted Mundy, son of a drunken cashiered British Army major, starting with his boyhood in Pakistan and following it through his schooling in England, his student activism, his troubles in Berlin, his fling as a writer, his work at a lower level government position, and his recruitment for work he can't talk about. Women pass through his life starting with Anya, the family servant in Pakistan. Now he is on the skids, looking for work, and being offerred something new.The novel is filled with political philosophy, activism against the establishment, criticism of the US role in various wars, etc. It is an interesting plot, but perhaps the author gets a little to involved on a personal agenda. It tends to be a bit slow reading.
