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John Le Carre is one of my favorite authors. It was a great pleasure to discover that his son is a great author on his own right — his novel Gnomon is absolutely amazing.

Or rather, I should say, I read this great book titled Gnomon after a random Amazon recommendation, and it turned out the author is the son of John Le Carre. It's only a shame he doesn't publish more often.

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> John Le Carre is one of my favorite authors

I have greatly enjoyed his work, although I've found him wildly inconsistent. His great books are sublime (eg: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), but he published a fair amount of dross too (eg: The Looking Glass War). I'd like to see more Netflix adaptations

I would make the same criticism in general, but I found The Looking Glass War fascinating as an exploration of how the urge to recapture the excitement and vigor of youth plays out when your youth revolved around WW2.

I'd go further and say The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy are his only two good novels.

They are great novels though.

I would add The Constant Gardener (with ok movie) and Single & Single to those recommendations. The latter reminded me of the Magintsky affair.

I thought Looking Glass War was fine, a distinct tale of an ill staffed intelligence group uaing obsolete approaches spectacularly screw up their operations.

Also a favourite. "A Perfect Spy" is a masterpiece.

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