When a gentleman’s tailor in Panama (which will immediately bring to mind Graham Greene’s creation, of course) is revealed to be a fantasist becoming mixed up with a spymaster all too willing to swallow any kind of nonsense, it soon becomes very evident that it is all going to end very badly for someone and perhaps for everyone. This being John Le Carre, the small infelicities and betrayals of individuals are inexorably caught up in processes that lead to nation-shaking events.
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