ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The heart of the book lies in the history that precedes the newspaper of 1955 which Austen finds in the opening scene. The life of Richard Austen has all the layers that have made this cover story so powerful: the petty tyrannies and sexual confusion of the public school; the attraction of the intellectual Left at Cambridge; the experience of the Spanish Civil War and the discovery of the fascist sympathies of the British elite. The other major appeal of the spy thriller is its map of the world. Like the romances set in foreign lands and the popular travel books, the thriller takes the globe as its setting; It also recall a resolute and ingenious civilian army, increasingly hostile to the conventional military virtues, which became far more than any of my younger friends will begin to credit san anti-fascist and consciously anti-imperialist army.
