Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

by John le Carré

hardcover, 416 pages

Published Nov. 7, 2019 by Penguin Classics.

ISBN:: 978-0-241-33715-8

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(23 reviews)

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Dimitri Mollo reviewed Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Gripping, difficult to put down

5 stars

This is a great spy thriller, unconventional in many ways. The world-building is extremely convincing, so much so that some of the invented slang for spycraft seeped into the actual world. The writing is engaging and elegant, and, as befits a thriller, once started it's tricky to stop!

jsatk@sfba.club reviewed Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

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4 stars

Took me longer than I’d like. Le Carré’s writing can be painfully obtuse sometimes and require a reread. This book seethes Britishness; its prose, how people talk, how people act, etc. Theres almost no actual action and yet it is a thriller. And much like Cormac is to westerns, le Carré is not just writing a spy novel. He's asking the big questions while doing it.