Thomas Jones: Post-Useful Misfits

Created
Fri, 06/10/2023 - 00:00
Updated
Fri, 06/10/2023 - 00:00
If le Carré saw that the secret services on both sides of the Cold War had a shared interest in keeping hostilities simmering, Mick Herron gets similar mileage from the idea of the enemy within: not in the sense of a mole working for a foreign power, or the way Margaret Thatcher thought of the miners, but of conflicts between ambitious actors struggling for supremacy at one government agency or another.