Ashenden At Last

[princeofcairo]

For whatever reason (intellectual sloth, most likely) I hadn't read the Ashenden stories by W. Somerset Maugham until ratmmjess essentially shamed me into it. Really terrific prose style, winning character, unsentimental but adult examination of responsibility and espionage (taken from his own wartime experience in the secret service), all coupled with an

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Have you read Maugham's novel The Magician? It's kind of proto-Denis Wheatley, with a villain so blatantly based on Aleister Crowley that one clever editor got Crowley to write a review of the book. I haven't been able to track down the review, but the novel's fun.