A Perfect Spy
by John le Carre
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Author: John le CarreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01-01
ISBN: 0743457927
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: "A Perfect Spy," in the same sense as "A Perfect Storm"
Summary: 5 Stars
Le Carre's earlier novels hint that a mole has infiltrated the British Intelligence community. Here, the mole goes to ground and ignites Le Carre's great mole hunt. Jack Brotherhood (perfectly named) tries to find the mole to save him from himself and determine the damage he's done. This is one of the last of Le Carre's traditional spy novels, in which spies from the great hegemons spy against each other. It's also one of the great character and cultural studies in modern literature.
Magnus Pym is a fractured soul. Fractured souls make the best spies because they can be anything to anybody, depending on what is needed at the moment. Running agents and maintaining one's cover requires one to be a perfect chameleon. However, because fractured souls have no true core of identity, they make the most dangerous spies because you can never tell whose side they are really on. They have no true colors. This is one of the great paradoxes of the old spy trade. Le Carre delves into Magnus Pym's fractured soul and examines his origins as one of the best double agents in literature. In doing so, he examines what it means to be human and to have a soul.
TK Kenyon
Author of Rabid: A Novel and Callous: A Novel
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