Mary, Mary

Christopher Hitchens

  • Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers
    Gollancz, 576 pp, £18.99, March 1993, ISBN 0 575 04236 2

Who can forget the moment in Chapter Six of Greenmantle when Richard Hannay penetrates the inner apartments of Colonel Ulric von Stumm and, with a thrill of horror, realises that there is something distinctly rum about the chief of Prussian Intelligence:

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