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Referenced when discussing the character of George Smiley, described as 'the shabby man in the mack, trudging from library to library in the pouring rain' - compared to the life of a historian

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Listed as one of Ben McIntyre's books when introducing him as a guest on the podcast

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Listed as one of Ben McIntyre's books when introducing him as a guest on the podcast

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Listed as one of Ben McIntyre's books when introducing him as a guest on the podcast

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Mentioned as a book about Oleg Gordievsky that Tom read 'last year in a wintery St. Petersburg'

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Discussed as a book directly based on the Garbo case, a real intelligence operation involving double agent Juan Pujol

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Mentioned as being 'kind of inspired by' Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana, both dealing with themes of spies selling fiction to their superiors

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Mentioned as a book that emerged from the Operation Mincemeat story - first revealed as a novel by Duff Cooper, then turned into 'a real book' which became a film

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Mentioned in passing when Tom notes that Luke Jennings 'went on to write Villanelle'

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Described as Ben McIntyre's 'most recent book' about Ursula Kaczynski, a female Soviet spy who operated from the Cotswolds