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The article mentions several fiction books on the subject but misses one by P Kerr: /info/en/?search=Philip_Kerr The Other Side of Silence. London: Quercus, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78429-514-1, set in 1956

the book mostly discuss Burgess and McLean and there is a transcript of an extensive "debriefing" of Burgess DBelin ( talk) 12:51, 2 May 2018 (UTC) reply

On looking at the lead, I felt it could benefit from some copyediting [1]. Fwiw, I was some surprised to find the sing/pl choice for "none" [of them] so controversial. After thinking a bit more critically about the sentence in context, I've tried this, though I can imagine that might be a bit controversial too (as it may implicitly call into question the completeness of our current knowledge). Fwiw, 86.186.168.233 ( talk) 21:24, 28 December 2020 (UTC) reply

I wrote 'were' in place of 'was', thinking it something that had gone unnoticed, rather than intentional. Out of curiosity, what is the implied semantic difference? Euphemios ( talk) 06:40, 18 April 2021 (UTC) reply