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...discreetly tucked in each ear, but he is otherwise undiminished. His speaking voice is patrician in tone (he was once, briefly, a tutor at Eton), and he quotes fluently from the annals of military historythe British in Suez, the CIA in Iran, the Abkhazian War, obscure, half-forgotten intelligence scandalsbut he is also an almost unnervingly gifted mimic. Over the course of an afternoon, he does, among others, the author James Jones, a snooty French photographer, Truman Capote and Mel Brooks' 2,000-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spy In Winter | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

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