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A masterclass in espionage thriller fiction from the heir to John le Carre for fans of Mick Herron, Charles Cumming and David McCloskey. Meet 'a female agent for our times', disgraced MI5 operative Slim Parsons.
Slim Parsons is all but burned.
Her last deep cover job for MI5 ended with a life-and-death struggle on a private jet that caused her to go on the run from both the deadly target and her angry bosses in the Security Service. They say that violence comes too easily to her; that she's bordering on delinquent and unsuitable for the roll of an MI5 operative.
Yet she is recalled and asked to infiltrate a news website that's causing alarm in the highest circles. It is staffed by a group descended from wartime codebreakers operating from an unassuming office block near Bletchley Park. Operation Linesman looks like a come down, the curtain on a brilliant career in the shadows. However, she accepts the assignment on condition that the Security Service searches for her missing brother.
Linesman turns out to be anything but simple. Her personal loss, her previous deep cover role, and a threat to MI5 itself from her original target come together in a three-way collision.
And all the while she is watched by someone even deeper in the shadows than she is.
Citizens are asked to buy, and asked to consider to buy, goods of
all sizes and all prices, nearly all of the time. Appeals to
political decision-making are less common. In The Consumer Citizen,
Ethan Porter investigates how the techniques of everyday consumer
experiences can shape political behavior. Drawing on more than a
dozen original studies, he shows that the casual conflation of
consumer and political decisions has profound implications for how
Americans think about politics. Indeed, Porter explains that
consumer habits can affect citizens' attitudes about their
government, their taxes, their politicians, and even whether they
purchase government-sponsored health insurance. The consumer
citizen approaches government as if it were just an ordinary firm.
Of course, government is not an ordinary firm--far from it--and the
disjunction between what government is, and the consumer apparatus
that citizens bring to bear on their evaluations of it, offers
insight into several long-unanswered questions in political
behavior and public opinion. How do many Americans make sense of
the political world? The Consumer Citizen offers a novel answer: By
relying on the habits and tools that they learn as consumers.
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The Thick and the Lean
Chana Porter
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