A Single Blade of Grass visions were a cheat. The camera would go to a coffee cup and Frank would say, 'The murderer used a coffee cup.' It drove me nuts. What we were trying to do this year was elevate Frank's visions to a dream-like state, so he would have to interpret what he's seeing. There would be more mystical, symbolic imagery that might give him more of a sense of what's going on. I had wanted to strip away the gift for a long time and see if the show really played without it. But we got back into that". "A Single Blade
Single & Single a shrewd businessman, then realized he was involved in black market dealings during World War II. At first Le Carré was simultaneously disgusted and fascinated by his father's criminal side, until he realized that his father was not a "mastermind," but instead a rather pathetic con man. Likewise, Oliver grows up eager to learn the "secret" of his father's success and geniality, but by the end of the novel realizes that his father has no "secret" at all. The Globe and Mail calls "Single and Single" one of le Carré's 'more underrated novels', and praises his depiction of 'the collapse