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2017-09-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Author John le Carré Brings George Smiley Back in 'A Legacy of Spies'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-09 01:07|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ...Hmm. Mixed feelings on this.

I absolutely love the Smiley Trilogy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People) but LeCarre - pen name of one David Cornwell, an employee of Her Majesty's Intelligence Service - doesn't like Americans one tiny little bit. He kept it in check, more or less, through the Trilogy though it kind of peeks out in Schoolboy. However, in his following books (and in interviews following his retirement from Government service)he lets it rip.

I'm likely to get it from the library though, because getting to see the old characters again is just too tempting.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-09-09 08:42|| 2017-09-09 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 What MK said, will buy in spite of authors Anti-American feelings.

Posted by Shipman 2017-09-09 09:33|| 2017-09-09 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmmm. I always liked Len Deighton better although I'm currently in the middle of The Looking Glass War. Le Carre was always so...depressing.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-09-09 11:55|| 2017-09-09 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Have you ever tried the Quiller series? One book was made into the move The Quiller Memorandum(1966)?

Posted by magpie 2017-09-09 13:29|| 2017-09-09 13:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Seen on the Daily Mail website just now:

'Something truly, seriously bad is happening' with the rise of Donald Trump warns author and former spy John Le Carré as he compares the US President's rise to that of HITLER

Posted by trailing wife 2017-09-09 13:32|| 2017-09-09 13:32|| Front Page Top

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