📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for A Legacy of Spies, by John Le Carré

6 September 2023 - kudos:

I didn’t love this when I first read it after its publication, but it has grown on me since! It’s fanservice, franchise-oriented writing at its best, and even if some of its details strain plausibility (just how old is Smiley?), it’s fun to see behind the scenes of Leamas’s narrative in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and to weld that narrative to characters we know from the Karla trilogy.