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A review by tbr_the_unconquered
A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
4.0
What makes corporates similar to cockroaches ? I think it's that slow entrance and the gradual overpowering of the original host environment. A sort of metamorphosis that leaves the host unrecognisable. They sniff out the profitable places of the world and slowly move in and before you know it they transform it. Look around you, what is surely the most profitable organisation you can think of ? The one thing that will never go out of popularity ? I'd say it is war. As long as we humans are alive on this planet, war will never go out of fashion. There are then the defence contractors, the presences in the corridors of power, the unholy alliances with the armed services and the political machinery and of the hundreds of millions of currency that flow like water between them. Le Carre with barely concealed angst explores one such alliance in this tale. A world where power and money grind human lives like ants under a boot.
This is the kind of plot that would have dilapidated into high octane chase, gunfights and other such cliches in the hands of another writer. Le Carre's characters try what they can to unspool a hideous conspiracy and what comes of it is what the crux of the tale is. The protagonists are regular people who battle it out against a seemingly omnipotent antagonist. A very similar thing occurred in The Constant Gardener and similar to it, Le Carre leaves the reader to figure out answers to a lot of questions in the end. There is a lot of venom spewed against the current state of affairs(read the time of Gordon Brown) and the US-UK tie up in the war against terror. While this populates the initial parts of the book, the last 50 or so pages move at a break neck speed and brings it all to an end.
A single man or a woman can wage a war against a system but the win might come at great personal cost. It is because of such human beings that the world still retains a semblance of sanity.
This is the kind of plot that would have dilapidated into high octane chase, gunfights and other such cliches in the hands of another writer. Le Carre's characters try what they can to unspool a hideous conspiracy and what comes of it is what the crux of the tale is. The protagonists are regular people who battle it out against a seemingly omnipotent antagonist. A very similar thing occurred in The Constant Gardener and similar to it, Le Carre leaves the reader to figure out answers to a lot of questions in the end. There is a lot of venom spewed against the current state of affairs(read the time of Gordon Brown) and the US-UK tie up in the war against terror. While this populates the initial parts of the book, the last 50 or so pages move at a break neck speed and brings it all to an end.
A single man or a woman can wage a war against a system but the win might come at great personal cost. It is because of such human beings that the world still retains a semblance of sanity.