Le Carre has lost his way in a book that is more a political statement than an espionage novel.His sympathetically idealistic character Sasha, described on the book's jacket as "seeker after absolutes" labels Israel's creation a "monstrous human crime" but doesn't want to be called anti-semitic.. He lambasts the Colation of the Willing's bombing of innocent Iraqis buts says nothing of Sadam's torcher and executions of hundreds of thousands of his own people.The author is clearly trying to make a statement but in so doing destroys what could have been one of his better books. The nuance and artfullnes of his previous books is replaced with the author's own obvious disdain for America, Israel and the war.The reader should be cautioned. If you cherished the Smiley trilogy, The Perfect Spy, The Little Drummer Girl and his other works as I did, do yourself a favor and don't read this book. You may become as disillusioned with the author is as the author is with us.