John le Carre’s George Smiley would have spotted the tail immediately. He would have noticed the man with an earpiece far to his left move in lockstep with the chap to his right.
The early rather odd conversation with the bloke in the white shirt, exposing chest hair, who identified himself as “head of security” would have put him on his guard and seen it for what it was: a warning.
Let me back up a bit. Snowy-haired Michel, the head doorman at Eden-Roc, greeted me when I arrived for the Air Mail-Warner Bros.
Party hosted by Graydon Carter, co-founder of newsletter Air Mail, and David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Guests are finishing dinner, we’re here for the after-party.
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