A review by tessyoung
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré

3.0

My 3 star rating is a bit tight, I would happily go to a 3.5 but not go as far as a 4. I love Le Carre and thought this would be the perfect read while I was away from home. I thought I'd race through it in the week and wouldn't need to bring it home in my limited luggage allowance. However, I found it a slow start and struggled to get into it at first. It felt like there was a lot of groundwork and pre-figuring what was to come and a certain impatience on my part to get the the denouement. When it came it was good, a little predictable with not much of a twist, but I couldn't help feeling like this book could have been more tightly written and edited. In the end I finished it on the bus to the train station...