Title: Lord Jim recycled by an author in decline.
Review: Apocalypse Now seems to have shown up too often on the BBC,and Le Carre has decided that in his old age, the memoryand plot of his first book needs to appear once again. Itsthe old story of Lawrence and a hundred other Englishmenwho for some reason or another "go native". There's allthe adventure of any old copy of "Chum" or "Boy's Own" inthe covers, with an added soupcon of a nubile young womancheating on an old age pensioner who is her lover. Oh no!A vapid tour through the antique shops of Bath, a few oldwarstories - the dashed Hun are Chechins here! - and theW.C. Fields of Russia - Boris Yeltsin -is charging in withhis dastardly Cossacks! And what an ending...if you can findit!! Le Carre writes: "I was an idiot. I took a holidayfrom who I was". Right mate...the book is proof!Rumours are that George Lazenby has been signed to play thelead in the film of this title.C.K. Dexter Haven
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