The reader is encouraged to believe that this new novel by Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat is about the celebrated defection of British Diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. It is an ...

Maclean dare not book a passage to the continent for fear of being arrested, but there was no reason why Burgess, who was under no suspicion, should not get tickets for them both. He could do it ...

Dick? (I now know that Burgess’s novel was written well before any of Dick’s major novels had appeared; the question was foolish.) “I don’t read science fiction,” Burgess hissed ...

It is more than 60 years since the ring’s first members, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, defected to the ... stage, and in books by John Le Carre, John Banville, Alan Bennett, and many others ...

“Olive Kitteridge,’’ won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. But “The Burgess Boys,’’ her most recent novel, is her best yet. Which is not to say it’s her most perfect book; in ...