Critical Praise
"Unfailingly entertaining. . . . A terrific achievement by the best spy novelist out there."
Matt Konrad, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A searing, startling novel that sweeps through much of the twentieth century and up to the present conflict with Iraq."
Lev Grossman, Time
"As fine a pleasure in the reading as the best of le Carré."
Alan Furst, Boston Globe
"His best novel in years. . . . John le Carré is the master who raised the contemporary spy novel to the level of fine literature."
Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune