Charlotte Grimshaw: Spy talk at a writers' festival
A week before the Auckland Writers Festival, I watched an old Ridley Scott thriller, Body of Lies, in which British actor Mark Strong does a star turn as the head of Jordanian intelligence. Set in the Middle East, the movie involves high drama, terrorists and guns.
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