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Jul 28, 2012buirechain rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I really shouldn't review this book by comparison to the movie, but it seems I will. I wasn't the biggest fan of the movie, there was a certain something lacking in the conclusion, and just in the depth of what it explored. It didn't do much of what it did well. I still read the book, mostly because it was a movie that seemed to have a solid book that it wasn't doing justice to, and I was right. This is an amazing analysis of the moral implications of spying, of the way these people are a world unto themselves, and yet holding themselves, and their importance up. And it's an examination of the mole that ruined Le Carré's career at MI6 by exposing him. This book gets into depth of characters, and really made me think.