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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020202
Author:Allan Massie

Spies

by Michael Frayn

Faber & Faber, GBP 16.99

Review by Allan Massie

Readers of the 'William' stories by Richmal Crompton will remember that during the Second World War William and his friends (Ginger, Henry and Douglas) were ever on the look-out for German spies. I'm sure that spy fever was never as intense during that war as in the previous one, partly because 1914 had been preceded by far more novels, by the likes of William Le Queux and E Phillips Oppenheim, Erskine Childers and, indeed, John Buchan. But it was still fairly lively. William and the Outlaws were certainly not the only ...

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