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...Little Drummer Girl, Le Carré (1 last week...
...with them. Others think they have a foolproof scheme. And still others delude themselves into thinking they are doing nothing wrong. "When someone gets arrested," says Sheldon Elsen, a prominent New York tax attorney, "it can be an almost unbelievable shock. I've seen people break down completely." Carr Ferguson, a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Davis, Polk and Wardwell, has seen that too. "People only think
...answer turns out to be Le Carré. The Little Drummer Girl (its title an oblique allusion to a Christmas song set in the Holy Land) is both a daring departure from his earlier work and a triumph of narrative control. The long duel between George Smiley of British intelligence and Karla, his opposite number in the Soviet Union, came to an end in Smiley's People (1980), with Karla crossing over from East Berlin into Western arms. Le Carré's emphasis throughout the Smiley sagas was on the abstract detachment of his hero, his intellectual moves...
...Carré presents Charlie's education as an accretion of details, to be overseen by the reader as well. The author's mastery of atmosphere has never served him better than here. He wrings suspense not only from the urgency of his plot but from the complex texture of individual scenes. His characters must pursue moral absolutes in a dangerous world mined with ambiguities. Kurtz attempts to explain his crusade and his chosen victims to his new recruit: "Only those who break completely the human bond, Charlie. They deserve to die." Kurtz means terrorists, but he himself must...
...Carré suspects that the publication of The Little Drummer Girl may make him a target for other kinds of attacks: "I'm pretty sure that I am going to attract a great deal of flak, particularly in the States, for even suggesting there is anything to put in the Palestinian balance. But I would wish to have it remembered of me, before they claw me apart, that in the nine novels that preceded this book, I think in six of them I wrote with unqualified sympathy about Jews. And if any non-Jew has the right to suggest...