Life imitates art, sometimes too well. The Soviet double agent Kim Philby was so impressed by the work of John le Carre that he asked to meet the doyen of British spy novelists in Moscow in the late 1980s. Le Carre declined. The China spy scandal currently gripping UK politics and media is again redolent of a fictional milieu — but this time the action resembles more closely the chaotic world of Slow Horses, where sloppiness, confusion and infighting are the norm.
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UK’s China Spying Scandal Is a ‘Slow Horses’ Plot
