Colin wrote: Pleased to see This Gun getting an airing Miker
and very glad that you enjoyed it. It's one of my favourites,
and I think the closest that Greene got to HB and, if not
Noir it is as atmospheric as most of his works, perhaps Gris?
If you like Greene you may well enjoy Le Carre's espionage
thrillers. In latter years they have become more
self-conciously literary in style, but
he is a great writer - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is
an accesible, self contained starting point...
********** It's hard not to like a book that starts off with,
"Murder didn't mean much to Raven. It was just a job." This
book delivers. There's some interesting chemistry between the
characters, too (being purposely vague here).
I read a certain spy novel a long time ago, and I think it
was THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Maybe I'm wrong. But
the ending had a long, drawn out court room drama where
evidence is built up and then broken down, and I didn't like
that. It has nothing to do with the quality of the writing; I
just have a personal dislike for court room scenes and lawyer
mumbo jumbo. I didn't like the lawyer stuff in THE POSTMAN
ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. The book was so pure and direct and
hard-hitting, and then it pulls in all that clever
stuff.
But I've been looking hard at Le Carre. Does the book I
describe above sound like SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD?
Didn't Le Carre write a Smiley series? What about the Tinker,
Tailor, Soldier, Spy? My apologies if I'm getting several
authors mixed up here.
miker
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