double agent

Framed as a confession by the child of a Frenchman and a Vietnamese woman, the narrator is a double agent with an unforgettable voice recalling Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov.

Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent during the Second World War and the early Cold War period.

At the time of his work as a double agent, his defection was hailed by then Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe as "a very substantial coup for our security forces".

Sozen, 39, played a double agent fighting Islamist militants in the hit show The Bureau.

He then contacted MI6 saying he had been paid by Iran after passing on false information and said he wanted to be a "double agent".