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Violence
Some
Political violence; threat of war; deaths
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Affairs and sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of complicity, fabrication, and the lethal comedy of espionage
What this book is about
Le Carré's 1996 black comedy follows Andrew Osnard, a corrupt MI6 officer sent to Panama, who recruits Harry Pendel, a tailor with a fake past, to spy on the Canal Zone. Together they manufacture an intelligence fiction that may trigger a real war. Mordant, funny, and dark. For adults.
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Sexual content
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