After an acrimonious US election whose outcome Moscow may or may not have influenced, can it really be that a few maverick intelligence agents from Russia and the United States are fighting a discreet battle-to-the-death on some of London's back streets? And that the corpses are piling up, out of sight of the British police? Or is that just more fake news? .
Well, luckily, no it isn't.
Not yet, anyway, because the media still hasn't heard about it.
But that could change.