Post by dentarthurdent on May 23, 2024 2:20:02 GMT
MacInnes was a spook’s wife, so she probably knew a thing or two. She was a prolific writer of spy novels. Somewhat formulaic, but entertaining. Her female characters that I’ve read so far tended to be strong and intelligent, the men smart and relatable. More three dimensional and complex than that Fleming chap’s characters (not that I didn’t enjoy reading those as well). Anyway, Assignment in Brittany had a short passage that screamed Miles Mathis.
The British spook on assignment was musing on the behavior of France’s Boche overlords, suggesting a cultural makeup that explains why the Phoenicians keep doing what they do:
“…it was incredible to what lengths of ingenuity the Germans would go. Like that batch of specially circumcised, long-nosed Nazis which had been dumped across the Dutch borders as pitiful refugees, in the days before their comrades came over with flame-throwers and parachuting nuns. The gift to see ourselves as others see us was definitely one which God had not included in the make-up of Nordic Aryans.”
The British spook on assignment was musing on the behavior of France’s Boche overlords, suggesting a cultural makeup that explains why the Phoenicians keep doing what they do:
“…it was incredible to what lengths of ingenuity the Germans would go. Like that batch of specially circumcised, long-nosed Nazis which had been dumped across the Dutch borders as pitiful refugees, in the days before their comrades came over with flame-throwers and parachuting nuns. The gift to see ourselves as others see us was definitely one which God had not included in the make-up of Nordic Aryans.”
