Il sarto di Panama

I have enjoyed previous spy thrillers by John le Carré, so perhaps it was just me, and my distracted circumstances while reading this book, but I found it to be dull and rather a slog. Somehow I forced myself to finish it, imagining that it had to get better. It did not.

Between February 2017 and September 2017 I read the entire George Smiley series. Having reached the end of the series, I was left wondering about John le Carré 's life and work, and whether to read other books by him, and so I read ‘ John le Carré: The Biography ’ by Adam Sisman in April 2018. ‘ John le Leggi tutto

At the end of The Tailor Of Panama John Le Carré acknowledges his debt to a previous work that presented a similar theme, Graham Greene’s Our Man In Havana. Both books are about the oxymoron that we call intelligence, so often self-contradictory because the label is only useful when there’s a lack o Leggi tutto

Gostei muito desta sátira hilariante sobre o impotente funcionamento britânico em relação aos assuntos estrangeiros. Todo o jogo de corrupção, espionagem e mentira. E toda a informação verídica por detrás da ficção deu para aprender muita coisa e fez-me pesquisar ainda mais sobre o assunto. Leggi tutto