John le Carre's latest was a #1 national bestseller and top of the New York Times bestseller list for 6 weeks. His hero, Magnus Pym--the perfect spy--has disappeared and attempts to find him unearth a clandestine chain of operations from Washington to Berlin. Now a seven-hour PBS miniseries beginning in October.
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John le Carre's latest was a #1 national bestseller and top of the New York Times bestseller list for 6 weeks. His hero, Magnus Pym--the perfect spy--has disappeared and attempts to find him unearth a clandestine chain of operations from Washington to Berlin. Now a seven-hour PBS miniseries beginning in October.
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Truly absorbing on all levels, but especially on the narrator's early life - his childhood relationships and the way they form him into being, as the title names him, the perfect spy; that is someone thoroughly insecure, eager to conform to conflicting interests and socially adaptable as well as highly intelligent.
The quality of the writing is flawless; so many apt, diamond -like expressions - really on every page, so that you constantly go back to capture them. This, with the compulsive urge to move on, creates a tension of its own.
I believe this book represents le Carre at his best' It's a work of genius.
Steve S
Mar 21, 2013
Le Carre's most personal book
In an introduction to the Kindle version of this book, John Le Carre refers to this as his favorite among his books, at least until the much later CONSTANT GARDENER. In that introduction he describes his relationship with his own father, who was something of a con-man. I found the book profoundly moving.
