Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors — he told them — appointed to the work by the period of history, the place, and their own natural dispositions. In their cases, it was simply a question of who got to them first, Your Eminences: ‘Whether it’s us, whether it’s the opposition, or whether it’s the bloody missionaries.

Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors — he told them — appointed to the work by the period of history, the place, and their own natural dispositions. In their cases, it was simply a question of who got to them first, Your Eminences: ‘Whether it’s us, whether it’s the opposition, or whether it’s the bloody missionaries.

– John le Carré –

The Honourable Schoolboy

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