Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy’s Son by Mark Colvin

What an interesting life Mark Colvin led. There’s a little about his father but no real detail, probably unsurprisingly when you think about it. The rest of the book details his travel and reporting on various places around the world. It was interesting reading about Moscow in the seventies and about political crises in other parts of the world that I remember from the time. The depth of course is not there, because of lack of space, but from time to time Colvin in extremely prescient in his comments – for example when he talked about the potential for a power vacuum should Saddam Hussein fall, which is of course what happened and we all know what filled it.