Little Buffalo

A lot of tid-bits that I didn't know

Revisado: 12-30-18

A good book with a lot of items that I did not know before. My only minor complaint was that there were occasionally small sections that were done over and it was either by at different location or by a different person.

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Would be better without the music every chapter

Revisado: 12-30-18

The music scattered in the story as chapter breaks is too distracting. Once at the beginning and once at the end would have been plenty

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Smiley is the spies' spy.

Revisado: 10-16-17

The biographies of John le Carré and Ian Fleming can easily explain the difference between Smiley and Bond.

Fleming came from a wealthy family, his father was the Member of Parliament, and was educated at Eton, Sandhurst.

While le Carré did not know his mother, who abandoned him when he was five years old, and his father had been jailed for insurance fraud, was an associate of the natorious Kray twins, and was continually in debt. His schooling was at St Andrew's Preparatory School and Sherborne School.

Fleming worked in British Naval Intelligence during the Second World War and was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units.

Le Carré ran agents, conducted interrogations of people who crossed the Iron Curtain to the West, tapped telephone lines and effected break-in. He left the service after the betrayal of British agents' covers to the KGB by Kim Philby.

So while Bond is the fantasy of some who knew espionage from reports crossing his desk, Smiley is the result of a man that knew of the true immoral, grisly and unethical aspects of his profession.

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Very good story about some dedicated people

Revisado: 06-30-15

Very good story showing how for some people money and acclaim is very far below simply doing the right thing for your fellow man (or sadly in these cases far too many women).

In some places the story gives over too much to the legal side and can be rather sparse on the forensic details I still learned interesting tidbits, especially about bloodhounds and their use as cadaver dogs.

Also it was very nice that the audio book has been updated from its' 2002 edition.

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Totally bizarre to the modern mind

Revisado: 02-21-15

It actually makes you understand how easily people are lead and puts jihadist in perspective

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