Going Straight
Neal Ascherson, 17 March 1983
After Long Silence
by Michael Straight.
Collins, 351 pp., £11.95, March 1983,0 00 217001 9 Show More
by Michael Straight.
Collins, 351 pp., £11.95, March 1983,
A Matter of Trust: MI5 1945-72
by Nigel West.
Weidenfeld, 196 pp., £8.95, December 1982,0 297 78253 3 Show More
by Nigel West.
Weidenfeld, 196 pp., £8.95, December 1982,
“... some equilibrium – not a matter of forgiveness – was regained between the two friends. When Arthur Martin, the investigator, rang the bell, they were talking about Cézanne. Blunt was disgraced, Long more grievously hurt, and Straight, after enjoying some quite respectful attention from the mass media, was eventually rubbished by the Sunday Times as ... ”