Can we all just agree that John Le Carre is the best flipping spy novelist in the world??? What I enjoy most about him is that his writing does not insult you. Most other spy fiction treats the reader as if they were 15 years old. Not Le Carre. His books are smart, funny at times, a bit convoluted, but most of all, intelligent. Ther are really no shoot-em-ups, car chases or other overt violent acts. It's thinking. It's dialogue. It's not trying to kill the other guy but to out-think and out-maneuver them.
I can't always get through his novels. A couple of them have thrown in too many characters that are referenced 100 pages later. But 'Smiley's People' is the pinnacle. In the movies, Alec Guinness played George Smiley (absolutely perfect casting) and even Le Carre said that after that, he couldn't picture George Smiley without the image of Alec Guinness.
Sure, "Smiley's People' is a bit convoluted. It wouldn't work otherwise. Go read it. If necessary, get the BBC series from Netflix.
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