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Spy fiction is not ordinarily the place one goes to find moral wisdom. It tends to be a sordid place where bad people are opposed by slightly less bad people, where “there is as little of worth on your side as there is mine,” to slightly paraphrase the greatest spy protagonist of them all, John le Carré’s George Smiley. And yet in a moment when the illiberal and totalitarian is ascendant in the west, it may be that spy fiction has a unique sort of wisdom to offer us.
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