I notice that one soi disant “conservative” reviewer stopped reading this novel, citing its adverse view of the worst President in American history. There may be others, although surely not very many. For those not so blinkered, this is top flight late LeCarre. As in all his writing at its heart is the difficulty of preserving some human decency while serving one’s country.

I’ve never stopped mid-read but with this one I had to. The overly obvious liberal bent written in a way to smear any conservative idea or person was too much.