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My Enemy's Enemy Is Not My Friend

Hilary Corke A MOMENT OF WAR by Laurie Lee Viking, £14.99, pp. 178 I n December 1937 Spain was tearing itself apart and Laurie Lee could no longer bear to remain outside the......

A Most Respectable Mobster

William Boyd LITTLE MAN: MEYER LANSKY AND THE GANGSTER LIFE by Robert Lacey Century, £17.99, pp.547 mil' ackie Mason, the American comedian, has a joke about the Mafia. Those......