IN JOHN LE CARRÉ’S CLASSIC MOLE HUNT Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the former head of the MI6 “scalp hunters” Jim Prideaux takes a job at a prep school in the country. There he shelters under his wing a bespectacled, Bunterish boy, Bill Roach, whom he teaches to drive his beloved Alvis, which he calls “the best car in the world”.
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