2023/045: Silverview — John Le Carré

2023/045: Silverview — John Le Carré

Had Florian given away the Service’s plans or its paralysis? Its sources, or the fact that some part of it had thrown off a long tradition of objective advice in favour of a giddy late-life romp through the wild woods of colonial fantasy? [loc. 2381]

Le Carré's last completed novel, polished and published by his son Nick (whose afterword is as fascinating as the novel itself).( Read more... )