John Le Carré (aka David John Moore Cornwall) is best known for his spy novels, and I should add that he worked for some years, in the very juicy 50s and 60s, for MI5 and MI6 before his extremely successful writing career. Would I be as impressed by Smiley’s world the second time around? And the answer to that question is a resounding: YES! I went through a le Carré phase some years ago, but Gary Oldman as Smiley brought back waves of nostalgia for the reading pleasure I once exacted from le Carré. “He had that art, from miles and miles of secret life, of listening at the front of his mind of letting the primary incidents unroll directly before him while another, quite separate faculty wrestled with their historical connection.”įueled by the promise of a new film version of John le Carré’s novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, I requested a review copy from netgalley.
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