Love le Carré and have been on a le Carré binge, reading through his oeuvre one by one.

But this one, man, was a hard one to read. It's smart writing, and it's funny at parts, but it doesn't propel at all. And I'm not saying le Carré should stick to spy novels; it's just that this one just has unlikable everything in it, including main characters, and it's not crazy or funny enough to work on not having a likeable character. It's political, but the politics are abstract and endemic to the time. Or perhaps I'm just thick to it.

Regardless, not my favorite.