Word: knife-play
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This is Le Carre in career form: his anger burns cold and clear. Rage has given back his pacing its sharp, irresistible snap, his wry social observation its bite and his signature backstage knife-play its deadly edge. But even more, he shows us without sentimentality or self-righteousness that a deeply moving, deeply personal story can be alloyed with a powerful political argument and that a single novel can express both an urgent, immediate sense of grievance and the melancholy perspective of an old man looking back on a long life lived in a tragic, tumultuous century...
...passenger then gave the driver a handful of money, more than the legal fare, and clearly showed that his momentary knife-play had been a joke. But the sensitive driver concluded his story with a shudder, "But that shining knife?I can still see it dangling before my eyes...
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