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Title: I wish I could write like John le Carre
Review: I found myself rereading pages just amazed at his spare and direct prose.The story is frustrating and sad. It shows how the use of double agents compromises everyone. It reveals the spy trade deployed to protect us as devious and amoral capable of destroying honest, passionate and well meaning citizens in its effort to protect its agents.The cold war is long over and the Berlin wall is gone. For those of us who came of age in those years, especially those with relatives behind the Iron Curtain the book feels like an icy hand around your heart.A brilliant and chilling book.
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