The Really Serious Book Club met at the home of Norton Schwartz and discussed the world of spies and conflicting national agendas in the context of the greatest secret agent for the British as recorded in The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre. Real life, in this case the stories of Oleg Gordievsky and Aldrich Ames, matched the fictional spy novels of John LeCarr.
The book selected for the next meeting is Secret Empires by Peter Schweitzer, about how American elite hide corruption and enrich friends and family.
We next meet on November 20. If you would like to discuss this book with us, call Norton at (949) 481-2459.
—Norton Schwartz
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