Fantastic. Le Carre's second book is much more of a traditional whodunit than anything else he wrote - despite the presence of George Smiley, there is no trace of espionage or the international concerns that dominate his other novels. This is, quite literally, an old-school mystery - as a favor to a friend, Smiley investigates a murder at an Eton-like public boys' school. Le Carre gives us a thoroughgoing sense of the stifling class boundaries and claustrophobia that affect such a place. At the same time, he writes a perfectly constructed, 130-page mystery with plenty of twists and surprises. He would never write a book like this again.
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Fantastic. Le Carre's second book is much more of a traditional whodunit than anything else he wrote - despite the presence of George Smiley, there is no trace of espionage or the international concerns that dominate his other novels. This is, quite literally, an old-school mystery - as a favor to a friend, Smiley investigates a murder at an Eton-like public boys' school. Le Carre gives us a thoroughgoing sense of the stifling class boundaries and claustrophobia that affect such a place. At the same time, he writes a perfectly constructed, 130-page mystery with plenty of twists and surprises. He would never write a book like this again.
2023-06-28 00:26