We are all le Carré’s people now
Look into his wilderness of mirrors and see our own world reflected all around
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Phil Tinline
Phil Tinline is the author of The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares and Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax That Duped America and Its Sinister Legacy.
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