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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
How does one find honour in modern espionage? Smiley's era is far gone, and the mission now is muddled at best, and culpable at worst.
The CIA and the British work together on jobs that are built on dicey intelligence and political agendas. A civil servant with no experience gets sent in to legitimize the works and be the "red telephone" to his Foreign Office boss.
But things go wrong, and several years later one of the soldiers returns to force a reckoning of what happened.
Le Carre is still one of the best there is in creating full people with a few lines or gestures. And as much as I don't know about the upper class English, they are all Le Carre characters to me.
The CIA and the British work together on jobs that are built on dicey intelligence and political agendas. A civil servant with no experience gets sent in to legitimize the works and be the "red telephone" to his Foreign Office boss.
But things go wrong, and several years later one of the soldiers returns to force a reckoning of what happened.
Le Carre is still one of the best there is in creating full people with a few lines or gestures. And as much as I don't know about the upper class English, they are all Le Carre characters to me.
From BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:
John le Carre's novel about a man who must choose between his conscience and his duty.
John le Carre's novel about a man who must choose between his conscience and his duty.
Briljant story, that gives food for thought on counter terrorism methods
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Just like the cover says, vintage le Carre.
He has a great ability to translate his style into the circumstances of every decade. This one is 21C and written to be utterly plausible (to me, anyway). All his plots have a point where you might says "Steady on ...", but it's very easy to overlook that point and take it as an excellently written thriller about the way things might actually be.
Just like the cover says, vintage le Carre.
He has a great ability to translate his style into the circumstances of every decade. This one is 21C and written to be utterly plausible (to me, anyway). All his plots have a point where you might says "Steady on ...", but it's very easy to overlook that point and take it as an excellently written thriller about the way things might actually be.
As always with Le Carre's books, I always want to know what happens to the characters after the end. I suspect it's his trick to keep readers wanting more.
A slow burn, impressive
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