![]() ![]() The social and physical details of English life and the day to day activities of the intelligence service at home and abroad are convincing. ![]() Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is fluently written it is full of vivid character sketches of secret agents and bureaucrats from all levels of British society, and the dialogue catches their voices well. There are those who read crime and espionage books for the plot and those who read them for the atmosphere the former talk of ‘ingenious puzzles’ and take pride in ‘pure ratiocination’ the latter think themselves more literary, worry about style and characterization, and tend to praise their favorite writers as ‘real novelists.’ Le Carré’s books-like those of the six authors just mentioned-offer plenty for both kinds of readers. Cain, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald in America. It reconfirms the impression that Le Carré belongs to the select company of such spy and detective story writers as Arthur Conan Doyle and Graham Greene in England and Dashiell Hammett, James M. “John Le Carré new book-his seventh in thirteen years-is a thoroughly enjoyable English spy novel about the discovery of a double agent at the highest level of the British Intelligence bureaucracy. ![]() The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |