![]() Once she meets him, she falls for him, and then is faced with the problem of how long she can conceal her profession from him. She squeaks through, and on the way acquires an older lover, who turns out to be an intelligence agent.īefore he disappears, he encourages her to join the organization, and after several months of clerical work, she is assigned to operation Sweet Tooth, where she is to present herself as a representative of a literary foundation that has decided to give Haley a grant to complete a novel. Serena Frome, raised in privilege as the daughter of an Anglican bishop, has gone to Cambridge to study math but finds herself instead burying herself in several novels a week. Recruited to surreptitiously funnel the funds to him is the narrator of Ian McEwan’s cunning if chilly new novel, Sweet Tooth. Most of these are writers of essays for the usual upscale journals, but MI5 also decides to experiment by secretly co-opting a young writer of short stories and an aspiring novelist, Tom Haley. The British intelligence service, MI5, left with not much to do, decides to imitate the much wealthier American CIA and secretly fund some artists who show properly capitalistic tendencies. ![]() ![]() It’s the 1970s, and the Cold War has turned tepid. ![]()
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