Sublime

On 7 November David Stirling was posted to No. 8 Commando, then at Largs on the Ayrshire coast.

If you met Lewis in the street, you might guess that he was a lawyer or a kindly geography teacher. In fact, he was one of the most efficiently deadly men in the British services.

“He’s a killer. He was here a year or two back with the East German Steel Mission. We had an Adviser here then: Maston.” “Quite so.” “Mundt was running an agent, the wife of an FO man. He killed her.” “He tried to kill George Smiley. And of course he shot the woman’s husband. He is a very distasteful man. Ex–Hitler Youth and all that kind of thing.