Another friday night doing laundry. ( I had to wear a dress today bc I had no clean pants 😳)My new read. I love a good spy novel. And I just discovered this drink this morning and I‘ve been missing out.
I finished the book & gave it a "So-So" rating; but there were a couple of things niggling in the back of my mind; and while I was driving home today realized that one of the things was this. It's a huge continuity error (Sophie is the one who fired the two shots!) Between this and a factual error (A FBI badge is *never* surrendered, even for a second into someone else's possession,) I'm downgrading the rating for poor editing & not fact checking.
so-soThe plot was solidly constructed; but in terms of suspense, readers of Scott Turow ('Presumed Innocent') and Scott Smith ('A Simple Plan') will catch on very quickly as to "what's what." Despite the Booklist quote (above), LeCarre is still the master.
Half-Way Status Update: Solid writing, even if the plot is a bit slow to gel. A junior diplomat is assassinated in Hungary, but all trails are leading back to Cairo... The story is set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring and the scuttling of spies through the streets and desert...
Though this had been on my radar, it wasn't until I saw @HardcoverHearts blurb review it here on @Litsy that I pulled it onto my nightstand! A modern day spy thriller involving adultery and assassination...
pickI listened to the audiobook of this and I almost put it down over revulsion with the female character. I'm glad I didn't because there are a lot of good layers to this thriller. I found it twisting and turning in all the right ways with all sorts of unreliable narrators. Recommended.
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