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

2.0

Read this on le Carré's death, his last book (at least so far). Eh, its OK? I do appreciate reading him modernized into the world of Trump and Brexit and the insight of how demoralizing that would be for the spy services. It was a very weird conceit of writing to have Ed

and his traitorousness and relationship with the narrator be this giant coincidence. Also that he coincidentally decides to marry another agent

. I like how le Carré dropped hints about that plot early without explaining it and letting that develop with partial dramatic irony, it's a deft trick of writing.

Mostly I just didn't find much of the plot or characters compelling. Entertaining enough but it did not grab me.