Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan · first published 2012
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An Anglican bishop's daughter gets in over her head with British Intelligence in this John le Carre-esque caper from the author of Atonement. Brash, bookish Serena just might make a perfect spy-if she can keep her heart under wraps.
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I own a copy, it's a fascinating read. The British author Ian McEwan mentions that Saunders' book influenced his novel "Sweet Tooth" [0], which itself is a fine read. [0]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099578786
on “Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (1995)” ↗"Sweet Tooth" Ian McEwan: CIA, MI5 and MI6 are sponsoring many writers, such as some companies sponsor open source devs
on “Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them” ↗Ian McEwan's "Sweet Tooth" [0] was partly inspired by the CIA's secret funding of Encounter magazine [1]. He also makes reference to to Frances Stonor Saunders' [2] book "Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War" [3]…
on “During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union” ↗