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La Dolce Vita Costs Lives

Thomas Fleming CONFESSIONS OF A SPY: THE REAL STORY OF ALDRICH AMES by Peter Early Hodder, £20, pp. 364 T he life of Aldrich Ames followed the trajectory of America's rise to......

A Madly Competitive Business

Theodore Dalrymple MASTERS OF BEDLAM: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE MAD-DOCTORING TRADE by Andrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie and Nicholas Hervey Princeton, £35, pp. 376 I t is......