|summary=A spy thriller fan's spy thriller that also caters for those not as obsessed this is a story worthy of the old-time espionage writers who inspired it.
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American Bill Cage is a middle-aged PR man who worships at the shrine of spy novels. It's a love he's inherited from widowed diplomat father. (Bill's mother having died in an accident when he was very young.) He fondly remembers his childhood as he travelled from posting to posting with his dad and their vast spy fiction library.