A review by krep___
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré

4.25

Raised as I was in the 60's & 70's on the image of Underdog Israel battling the evil forces of Palestinian terrorism (e.g., Entebbe and the Munich Olympics), reading this in the mid-80's opened my naive, relatively young eyes to the other side of the story. Le Carre's lead character is torn, as always, by conflicting loyalties and gut-wrenching moral decisions, as he immerses us in his delicious prose. Read this book. Do not watch the movie. According to le Carre, director George Roy Hill apologized to him for ruining his story. Enough said on that score.