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Review title: Dude, where's my Le Carré?
Product review: What oh what has happened to my favourite author, the creator of such Cold War literary gems as "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Russia House"? Instead of the wonderfully complex humanist George Smiley, in "Absolute Friends" we are now presented with one-dimensional characters such as the hapless Ted Mundy and cartoon villain Jay Rourke. Rather than the tightly-woven plots of his earlier books, we now have rambling storylines that barely mesh. And in place of the morally ambiguous universe that made his earlier novels so compelling, we are now given the didactic dreck and leftist political clichés of Le Carré's newly-acquired weltanschauung. A deeply disappointing book.
