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Guillam noticed the queer colour of Haydon’s cheeks. A blushing red, daubed high on the bones, but deep, made up of tiny broken veins. It gave him, thought Guillam in his heightened state of nervousness, a slightly Dorian Gray look.
— Jan 24, 2026 12:57PM
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Nothing is worth the destruction of another human being. Somewhere the path of pain and betrayal must end.
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Legmen for Haydon's Soviet networks, they'd been around for years, known simply as the Russians. They were blond and squat and they looked more like Russians than the real ones.
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Out of date perhaps, but who wasn’t these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment, after all, every man chooses: will he go forward, will he go back? There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind.
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Jan 24, 2026 02:50PM
This book is as good as advertised. But so is the third volume of the trilogy. So well worth plowing through the whole if it is to your taste.
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AC wrote: "This book is as good as advertised. But so is the third volume of the trilogy. So well worth plowing through the whole if it is to your taste."Good to know, thank you, AC! It’s my first Le Carré and I am enjoying it a lot, so I hope to read those next volumes to.
