Ashenden, or, The British Agent

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This seemed to be especially the case with the Englishman Caypor, who has a German wife, and the American businessman Harrington.

He had planned on marrying her once, but after a week spent in Paris with her, after eating only scrambled eggs every morning, her favourite, Ashenden fled to America. Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. Perhaps if this had taken three distinct period's and three families it would have worked - as it is, I'm just not sure. I adored this book; I saw it as a sort of love letter to a vanished way of life, and a slice of English history at the same time, tracing as it does the lives of all the people who lived in Ashenden, a beautiful English country house, for over two hundred years.Ashenden investigates and discovers that Gustav has not been to Germany since the war started and has made up all his reports… [blackout]Ashenden agrees with ‘Gustav’ that the Secret Service will pay him only for validated results in the future.

Szóval Ashenden a kémek Paradicsomába, Svájcba kerül (meg később máshová is), és keveri-kavarja, miközben ilyen-olyan figurákkal hozza össze a sors. This book consists of a handful of interconnected short stories about a British intelligence officer, Ashenden. They have also created an original programme for Audible, The Special Relationship, and an animated series for BBC 3, Oi, Leonardo!Some are just stereotyped 'funny foreigners' - for instance the title character in 'The Hairless Mexican', who wrongly thinks he is irresistible to women and never washes. This is a lovely take of how this house takes its owners as lovers, rewarding them with a home that feels like a corner of heaven, all the while draining their financial resources.