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...Smiley's People, Le Carr...
...Married Man, Piers Paul Read ∙Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing ∙Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙The Executioner's Song,Norman Mailer ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth
...Smiley's People, Le Carre...
Forsyth could never create a George Smiley, the hero of John Le Carre's series that began with The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. However convoluted his adventures, Smiley provides an anchor for every Le Carre story because he is a real person--a troubled, depressed, aging spy. Forsyth deals in Supermen, plastic men whom we will root for but never really care about as human beings. He came closest in Jackal, with his portrayal of the man who tried to assassinate Charles De Gaulle; he failed outright in his two later novels, The Odessa File, in which...
...Smiley's People, Le Carr...