As much as we enjoy James Bond movies, we have to admit that their portrayal of the spy world is patently ludicrous.

In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control (Sir John Hurt), resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control ...

But is all just a covert way of covering up the fact that he's really a spy? His good friend ... singer but he works for MI5 ...

The discovery of another bad apple in MI6, Kim Philby, would provide the inspiration for le Carré's most famous work - the Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy trilogy. His gift was combining the high ...