From: julianlzb87@gmail.com   
      
   Mick Herron re-reads the novels of John le Carré   
      
   My memory tells me it happened like this: I was watching TV; it was   
   1979. The programme was a new drama serial, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,   
   about the search for a mole in the British secret service – and if   
   “mole” was a part of my vocabulary then, it would have been from reading   
   about this very programme. My parents were in their usual chairs. I   
   can’t remember who else was in the room, or whether it was a weeknight,   
   or what time of year it was, but I do remember that during the opening   
   scene we watched the characters assemble for a meeting. One – who would   
   turn out to be Bill Haydon, as played by Ian Richardson – entered   
   carrying a cup of tea, on top of which he’d balanced a saucer, to   
   prevent spillage. “That’s a strange way of carrying his tea”, my dad   
   said. “I bet he’s the traitor.”   
      
   https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/john-le-carre-mick-herron/   
      
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