Question

Novels about characters in this profession were popularized with Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands. (0[1])A “lamplighter” named Toby Esterhase (“es-ter-hay-zee”) features in a novel about a member of this profession who has retired from an organization nicknamed (20[1])“the Circus.” A salesman who takes up this other profession (20[4])plays (20[2])an alcoholic (20[3])game (20[1])of checkers against (20[1])Captain Segura and fools others with his sketches (20[1])of (*) vacuum cleaner (10[1])parts. (10[3])Salesman James (10[2]0[1])Wormold gets this job in a Graham (10[1])Greene novel set in Havana. (10[2])A member of this (10[1])profession (10[1])named George Smiley appears in a novel about (0[1])one of these people who “came in from the cold,” written by John Le Carré. For 10 points, name this profession of the most famous character created by Ian Fleming, (0[2])James Bond. (10[6]0[1])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: spy [or a secret service agent; accept double agent or MI6 agent; accept British spy; accept The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; prompt on agent; prompt Our Man in Havana with “What is the profession he acquires?”]
<Michael Bentley, Literature - British - Long Fiction&gt; ~23458~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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Summary

2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y3597%37%0%79.26

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