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

5.0

Easy to forget fresh off the back of Le Carre's alochol-soaked and manic "wife has left me" phase of his career just why he's regarded as the premier author of the spy novel. So leave it to both the Karla Trilogy, and this: his expansive, hyper-detailed and distressingly timely examination of the cruel futility of tradecraft in service of an eternal war with no victor, to remind you why that is.