05-12-2014, 09:14 PM
I finished reading this recently and I thought it was excellent. The writing is not on the level of an Ambler or Le Carre but the plot is completely gripping and the subtexts are, as you would imagine, fascinating. Highly recommended.
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.â€
― Leo Tolstoy,
― Leo Tolstoy,