spymaster

When the president of the United States and his spymaster sound like Putin, it might be time to rethink things.

Celebrity Name-Drop IMF chief Christine Lagarde, Oxygen founder “Gerry” Laybourne, ex–U.K. spymaster Dame Stella Rimington.

And it is a police state whose mukhabarat chief is a KGB-trained spymaster with a reputation for ruthlessness.

Germany even gave East German spymaster Markus Wolf a government pension and let him peacefully retire.

After a string of disappointing books, the Cold War spymaster is back with a great new novel.