In early November I’d been to the launch party for the spy novel The Mole: The Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates, and am only now getting around to reading it. I’m really enjoying this heady thriller whose narrator and protagonist is a Canadian transplant to the U.S. that finds himself on the staff of the real-life senator from Georgia, Richard Russell. I tweeted about the book last Friday and neglected to share about it here until now. Highly recommended, the sort of book for which I’d like to put my work aside so I can burrow deeper in to the unfolding tale.

#FridayReads Peter Warner’s spy novel THE MOLE, the faux memoir of anti-hero Winston Bates. http://t.co/rxK77rizTC pic.twitter.com/ggZAhKDosF

— Philip Turner (@philipsturner) December 14, 2013

Note: This piece is cross-posted at my other blog, The Great Gray Bridge.