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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I'm with Victoria on this. Yes, Toby was breaking rules to make the recording, but Quinn was clearly breaking a great many more.
I liked the term "solitary decider" also. Toby is the whistleblower, a man with ethics when there are precious few of them on display anywhere else.
You may have noted in the Acknowledgements that le Carré expressed his thanks and admiration for Carne Ross, [...]
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I hope my previous posts don't sound dismissive of whistle-blowers, but they do tread a shaky line. My objection is partly to the character of Toby (as I tried to explain in the previous post), but also partly to the lack of depth le Carré offers to the subject of whistle-blowing in this book.