A Delicate Truth

from agingcow2345

The plot is absurd. The characters are stock figures out of central casting and absurd even on their own terms. Forget if you agree with the author's quite obvious views on America, GWOT, New Labor, the Deep State etc. He has ridden similar hobby horses before and simply done a better job of it. ...

from neddludd

Bob Dylan is still touring and John Le Carre is still writing books about all kinds of spies--even those who ostensibly serve the Queen. With daily bulletins on just how all-seeing and all-knowing the NSA has become, Le Carre fashions a tale based on a black operation set in motion by faulty info...

from rufusraider

Another thinking man's espionage thriller by John le Carre. The plot is about a member of the foreign office investigating a secret rendition in a British territory on his own time. An American company who is involved in the privatization of the intelligence and security services, is the firm tha...

from librarian1204

Excellent. I could not put this book down. I have read Le Carre from the beginning. Sometimes in recent years, I was not as excited as I was in the past. But this book is so good. Moving quickly, plotted so well, written with insight, purpose and intensity. Makes one wonder and accept that all is...

from rongeigle

One of the things I love about le Carre' is the sense of characters lost in a bureaucratic labyrinth, and the reader is just as confused as they are, at least for awhile. The downside of this theme is that all can seem hopeless and doomed. In A Delicate Truth, le Carre' gives us a feel for the hu...