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Collected Short Stories: Volume 3 - Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Dan Sullivan but the past can beWho better qualified to chronicle the experiences of an author agent during the First World War than Somerset Maugham, himself a writer turned spy? His alter ego is Ashenden, a calm observer with a cool head. From his almost casual recruitment into Intelligence at the beginning of hostilities we follow his progress through a series of incidents. There is the fiasco of the Hairless Mexican, a ladies' man and thoroughly inept assassin. And the pathetic