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The Human Factor by Graham Greene
5.0

Edit: Raised my rating to five stars because three days later I'm still so sad and can't stop thinking about it.

If your spy novel doesn't feature lonely and anxious awkward middle-aged men is it even a spy novel? Probably not.

From the very beginning this story went places I didn't expect (had no idea racism and the apartheid - and the fear of it -was going to be such a huge factor in the narrative) and the I found the ending profoundly affecting.
SpoilerNot sure why a lonely, anxious, ambiguous book with a lonely, anxious, ambiguous ending left me so sad and shook.