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Simon Callington—an officer safely entrenched in the middle of the British Admiralty—is estranged from his aristocratic family and has a German Jewish wife, with whom he has three children, at least one of whom is a nerdy trainspotter. It being 1960, then, there's something decidedly off about our Simon. When a higher government official (and Simon's lover when they were both at Cambridge) becomes incapacitated and needs to cover u...Log In or Sign Up to Read More