Agent Running in the Field review – Brexit fuels John le Carré’s fury | John le Carré | The Guardian
I have been rereading le Carré’s last book published whilst he was alive. Probably written soon after he became an Irish citizen. I thought we were over some of the shit. Not so.
Robert McCrum wrote back then in 2019.
Angrier still, one of le Carré’s puppets describes the foreign secretary as a “fucking Etonian narcissistic elitist without a decent conviction in his body bar his own advancement”. Not our author’s words, of course, but certainly fuelled by his indignation, as is a memorable anti-Trump diatribe (“Putin’s shithouse cleaner”) on page 141. This novel, however, is neither a hissy fit nor a high-noon shootout, but an autumnal threnody that reconciles rage to storytelling.