In the post-Cold War world, John Le Carré’s fiction has generally focused on a combination of the inequities visited on the vulnerable of the world, which can no longer be excused even by the weasel excuses of ideological conviction, together with the moral ambiguities facing those brought into the action more or less against their will. Generally, willing protagonists are the true believers, in one way or another, whose actions cause the problems that afflict the lives of those who are left behind them or who merely have the misfortune to get in the way.
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