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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
I can understand why Charlie would not like this one as much as previous books. I prefer the Smiley books too. The moralizing here is front-and-center. The typical action scenes that one might find in this genre take place behind the scenes. This book is so much about the moral dilemma that once Toby makes his decision to be a whistle-blower the book simply ends and you don’t know his fate.
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I read my share of espionage thrillers back in the day--I used to devour Helen MacInnes books--and I greatly prefer moral dilemmas to action scenes, but here I simply didn't care about what was going on or the people involved. Why not have Toby as the POV character throughout, with the story unfolding as he discovers it, instead of diffusing the impact with so much focus on what was going on with the other characters?