When 98-year-old double agent George Blake died in Moscow on Boxing Day last year, my biography of him was long since ready.
Blake was a one-man Netflix series whose life tracked many of the dramas of the 20th century. A Briton raised in the Netherlands, he was a teenage courier in the Dutch resistance, joined the British secret services, converted to communism while a prisoner in North Korea and became a spy for the KGB. He then sent dozens of agents working for Britain to their deaths.
Financial Times