The just–published The Literary Spy: The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage and Intelligence, is “the perfect gift for the shadowy someone in your life,” says Alex Beam in his Boston Globe column. Edited by “Charles Lathrop”, “an ex–spook using a pseudonymn,” it’s “a fat chapbook of anecdotes and snippets culled from almost every source imaginable.” Among those who made the book: “the young Ceylon–based spy clerk Julia McWilliams, who later cooked up a very different career under her married name, Julia Child.”