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As long as this book is, it still seems short...rushed, almost; as if it were only a fragment of a mega-tome existing on a higher plane...with at least a thousand-page novel devoted to each main character

Chinese got the idea for their 'social credit' system from the American consumer credit/credit card/credit reporting agency network🤯

Lecarre's ruling classes are always homosexuals, fops, fools and traitors

I had totally forgotten that I tried to read this when I was about 13 and never made it past the annoying opening scene with the drunken reporters doing antics like characters from Joseph Wambaugh's Choir Boys transported into a Graham Greene novel. It felt fake then and still does.