Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in an shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lhuteran pastor, first become friends as students in riot-torn West Berlinof the late Sixties. They meet again, in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.
This is a book that offers a bitter warning even as it delivers inmense reading pleasure. No reader, whatever his politics, could fail to be moved by the passion and intelligence of le Carré.
Le Carré brilliantly manipulates an absorbing plot to give the reader a masterly tour of Cold War Europe. Few could fail to be thilled by the unbridled rage that fuels his storytelling. He has once again demonstrated his mastery of his chosen genre while at the same time giving lesser, ordinary novelists a masterclass in taking nothing for granted.
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