Considerably Inflated
Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post reviews John le CarrĂ©’s A Most Wanted Man.
The anti-American note struck there is not new to le CarrĂ© — it has coursed through his work much as it did in the fiction of Graham Greene — but it is expressed in A Most Wanted Man with special virulence. No doubt this reflects the author’s opposition to innumerable aspects of recent American foreign policy, but he seems neither to know nor to care that many Americans share that opposition.