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Yazan: John le Carré
Seslendiren: Michael Jayston
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Le Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama

The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry ­- dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for.

Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carré's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control.

©1995 John le Carré (P)2025 Penguin Audio Espionage Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Sovyetler Birliği Soğuk Savaş
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An excellent Le Carre story involving a wonderfully intriguing main POV character. Captured so beautifully by Michael Jayston’s narration. Truly a gifted performance. It is like listening to a master craftsman at work. You can almost imagine him preforming it on stage. We should ensure his recordings of Le Carre are not lost in favour of bland re recordings.

Michael Jayston’s narration simply astoundingly good!!

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I generally enjoy Carre’s novels but for me, this one seems to have far more detail than is needed to tell the story. If I was reading the book I would have scanned over so much!

So much detail, is it all actually needed?

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This is a first person narrative where the protagonist is a sanctimonious pedant.
It’s like being stuck at a dinner party next to an insufferable bore who alternates between talking to you about his ex and lecturing the whole table with his politics whilst virtue signalling with his shiny moral compass.
Of the 3 central characters, 2 of them are almost entirely represented via recalled conversations. The scenes of reported dialogue are separated by long sections of turgid exposition. There’s an early police interview scene where he almost provokes the sergeant into punching him in the face. This stayed with me as I spent most of the book wishing he had.

Turgid and painfully slow

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All tell and no show. The protagonist, despite others' contentions, is pure le Carre. Agreed, an annoying pedant: the portrait of a bitter, ageing, increasingly irrelevant man. I know him well.
The plot is too simple to justify the length of the text and full of silly dialogue, for instance, "...they've gone to the rave," and "'Cheers' is how the working class say, 'Thank you,' these days," or similar.
Jayston's peerless as a narrator especially of le Carre, that's why I finished it.

Stayed for Jayston

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I found this a difficult book to maintain interest in. I love John Le Carre books as a rule but this book failed to pull me in and a really poor ending.

Disappointing and quite boring.

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