Posted on 02/08/08
How Canada's first spy foiled the dastardly Fenians
DELUSIONThe True Story of a Victorian SuperspyBy Peter EdwardsKey Porter, 344 pages, $32.95Henri Le Caron (a.k.a Thomas Beach) had all the makings of a spy. He had an alias, a curious accent, an adventurous past, a thirst for money and maybe even a cause. He had the look: intense gaze, compact body, the air of someone who, if you met him in a dark alley, you might sidle away from as a possible psychopath.
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