Play Book Tag discussion

The story opens with two detectives arriving at Tim’s door following the disappearance of one of his friends. Tim is a retired spy, and his friend Larry was a former double agent. As Tim looks into Larry’s disappearance, it soon becomes clear that Larry is not the only person who has disappeared. Emma – Tim’s young lover – has also disappeared. Set in the early 1990s, we follow Tim as he works out what has happened, as the story unfolds through a series of vignettes moving back and forwards in time. This was quite a slow book and deals with spying, politics and a love triangle, which seems unusual for the books I’ve previously read by Le Carre. The momentum was building up throughout the book, but I did feel a bit let down by the ending, and the book was not as good as some of the other ones I have read by this author.

I felt the same way - not quite up to the level of others I've read by Le Carre.