Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of JFK, is a larger-than-life character who could easily have walked out of the pages of a spy/espionage novel. Indeed, the creator of such a character as Oswald, might struggle to get him past a literary agent or a publisher as his activities stretch credulity. Oswald had a difficult upbringing […]

RELEASE OF THE JFK FILES: NO END OF CONSPIRACY IN SIGHT Last month over 2,800 files, previously restricted for a variety of reasons, including those of ‘national security,’ were released relating to the assassination of President John. F. Kennedy. These files add to the millions of words and thousands of books which have been written […]

REVIEW OF A LEGACY OF SPIES BY JOHN LE CARRE PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN VIKING £20 I don’t think it’s overstated to say that when his third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, was published at the height of the Cold War in 1963 (the year after the Cuban Missile Crisis) John Le […]