John Le Carre – The world is too small? or Is it?

‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré – NYTimes.com. – is as good a review as it can be when some one talks of Le Carre’s work. But that is , possibly because, Olen Steinhauer is the author of eight novels, most recently “An American Spy.” He lives in Budapest.

““A Delicate Truth,” like most of le Carré’s recent novels, feels like a rebuttal to George Smiley’s theory. How many stray cats can we allow to be snuffed in order to reach our ends? Or, as le Carré put it in an essay in last month’s issue of Harper’s, “How far can we go in the rightful defense of our Western values without abandoning them along the way?” Back in 1963, in “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold,” we watched that novel’s stray cat, Liz Gold, die on the Berlin Wall. A shame, yes, but in the grand scheme of things an acceptable loss. Fifty years later, “A Delicate Truth” suggests that even little Liz Gold would be too much of a sacrifice.”

I have been able to get le Carre book form British Library these days. This is THE 23rd novel, and I have completed just three of them.. WOW.. what a way to go ahead…….