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Originally Posted by issybird
Ultimately, though, here's where it fell flat for me, and maybe I'm just too jaded ten years after the book was published and given what's going on in the world; I didn't think the collateral death of an illegal migrant and her baby would have been sufficient as the first cause of all this, especially not for a career soldier and foreign office wonks who've signed on to the Official Secrets Act. It needed to be more.
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Maybe I’m reading more in to it than is there. But I read it as being about much much more. Le Carre said this was his most autobiographical and his most British book. He was sounding an alarm about the direction of a powerful faction with the British gov & police, and allies.
A recent example would be showing greater concern about the sale of military weapons to a certain allie, than their brutal repression of a free press.
(I’m sorry about multiple posts at once. A family member is in intensive care after a very difficult surgery, so I’m at the hospital most of the day. She’s likely to be there for several days, so I only have a small window of time to partipate.)