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The Books Spies Loved in 2021

A SpyTalk survey found an eclectic mix, but one debut thriller in special emerged

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Dec 15, 2021
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TURNS OUT retired spies and counterspies are like you and me after all—at least in their choices of books. Sure, they like the well turned spy novels of the high-lit variety—do I really need to cite Le Carré?—but their tastes even more often run to deeply reported, reflective books on politics, history, the environment and culture.

With the holiday book-…

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