Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré review – thriller laced with Brexit fury

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The master of the spy genre takes aim at Brexit and Trump in a classy entertainment about political ideals and deception

ohn le Carré’s novels contain flurries of physical activity – moodily described surveillance, dead-letter drops, the very occasional shooting – but the real action is always two people talking in a room. Even the most apparently innocuous dialogue may be coded and ambiguous, serving two opposed purposes simultaneously: one meaning for the secret grey listeners, who in le Carré’s world are always assumed to be paying attention, and another meaning altogether for the participants.

 

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