Malayan Spy1953, Cold War, cusp of Independence and adulthood, England, Berlin, Malaya. An unfortunate young Malayan student must choose where his loyalties lie. London, 1952. Young man Hamid, adrift from his studies and from himself, uncertain of his future and that of Malaya, not yet a country. He wants to belong to something but is it to his Sultan, to a barely imagined nation or to the British Empire? The answer, he believes, is to find a wife. In the Great