Meanings of perfect spy in anglès

You would have been a perfect spy.

Like every perfect spy, he was composed of the inclemency of the executioner and the patience of a micograph.

A perfect spy, then.

A tall man with a warm, lined face, he had looked like the perfect spy in his day, nondescript, dowdy, almost invisible.

Smiley's People and A Perfect Spy were excellent.

A Perfect Spy, le Carré's most autobiographical novel, draws on this interest in the early habit of duplicity.

"But that's my problem-howto make a perfect spy out of him."

The mighty Philip Roth, meanwhile, went one better and said that A Perfect Spy was "the best English novel since the war".

"It seems strange," I had remarked to him, "that the Huns can always forestall our most carefully-prepared plans through their almost perfect spy system.

When his plotting is at its best, as in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) or The Perfect Spy (1986), it is a rare literary achievement.