When Ashenden was on a mission in Switzerland, he took a walk through the countryside and said this poetic description - 'The view was of course spectacular, but it captured you; it was like a piece of music that was obvious and meretricious, but for the moment shattered your self-control.

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. So authors like John le Carré, Graham Greene and Len Deighton follow in the pattern suggested by Somerset Maugham. Although the book has its lighter moments, it also captures the ruthlessness involved in the business of espionage. As mentioned in the above excerpt he is mostly just acting as a handler, paying off the actual spies and relaying messages.

This book consists of a handful of interconnected short stories about a British intelligence officer, Ashenden.

And some stories have nothing to do with spying but consist of matters of the heart or of events that reveal human character. There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! This book is a collection of related short stories which is almost a complete novel though there is no central “plot” per se.Britain under King Charles III will bring new challenges, however, because of the divergent and conflicting parts of the body politic – the forces of secularism and Islam, and whatever remains of Christianity – and the demands each will inevitably make on the cultural and public life of the nation.