He's a spy, but his compulsions are deeply personal, related to the events of his childhood, schooling, father, wives and son. Now in his latest novel, A Perfect Spy, though on seemingly familiar turf, the master has veered away from the snares one intelligence service lays for another to the personal betrayals of family, marriage and human relations.īrilliantly written and constructed, even sensual, always evocative, this new le Carr,e is likely to infuriate many of his fans simply because there is too little of the spy's tradecraft, only fleeting mention and attention given to dirty tricks, reading of mail, the codes, tunnels, Joes (agents), wiretaps, burnboxes, forging and re=cruiting.Īt the novel's beginning, Magnus Pym, the British intelligence service's station chief in Vienna, has disappeared and gone into hiding to write his own account of his life and career, to unravel it all. JOHN LE CARRE's rightful position as the premier spy novelist of modern time is rooted in his various previous portraits of complex deceptions: MI6 versus KGB,Įast versus West.
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