Today is an interesting date for amateurs of spy thrillers, especially fans John Le Carré. In Call for the Dead, George Smiley receives this letter on the 3rd of January:
"Dear George,
It is essential that I lunch with you tomorrow at The Compleat Angler at Marlow. Please do your best to meet me there at one o'clock. There is something I have to tell you.
Yours,
Samuel Fennan"
So it is on this date that was supposed to take place the meeting, but Samuel Fennan died before. The Compleat Angler is still in business and both the hotel and the town of Marlow are perfectly atmospheric places for a spy thriller. I can't be there today (don't think I could afford lunch there anyway), but I always wondered if something might happen there.
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