Full name: Ashenden: or, The British Agent

Author: W. Somerset Maugham Year: 1927 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Free books, Fiction, Classic, Short Stories, Mystery, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: FadedPage Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780891902133 0891902139

A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Maugham had the perfect cover for living in Switzerland. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many European countries, he was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. A collection of stories rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity. Similar books: Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene The Night Manager by John le Carre The Tailor of Panama by John le Carre Old Boys by Charles McCarry All That Man Is by David Szalay Single & Single by John le Carre Our Game by John le Carre The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carre Stained Glass by William F. Buckley, Jr. The Ebony Tower by John Fowles Stamboul Train by Graham Greene A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler A Small Town in Germany by John le Carre The Last Supper by Charles McCarry Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle