prose and spies

Rereading one of my favorite books of all time, John LeCarre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. What a great writer. As only one example, describing Control, the head of the British Secret Service (AKA the Circus) as having a smile ‘as warm as a skull

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