Review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) by Brett C — 14 Jan 2014

The greatest spy story, does Le Carre tell. It seems, Karla is the best spymaster, in the world, but Smiley has to act, after Karla, and then, Karla is at the point of frustration. I mean, Smiley is like a soldier at Stalingrad, when he asks about the well being of Karla's wife, who had probably been killed, before Karla returned back to Moscow.

It seems, Karla sees doggedness and relevancy, in why Smiley is a spy. Apparently, Karla and what is apparent is also obvious, is more like the C. I. A., than British Foreign Intelligence. Smiley tells the K.

G. B. head, that 'there is little worth in our systems', 'your wife is very important', etc.. Karla is like the lady, who Smiley admires, who in turn is devoted to 'control', as she also remembered him, in army uniform, in intelligence, during the war, and the similarity is, that the war was relevant to spying, the second world war, and no one likes it, during the Cold War.

Smiley met Karla, at New Delhi airport, when Smiley believed the situation in '55 was a war situation at least in mind. Karla appreciated that greatly, but he was wondering whether after the war, after his family was destroyed, whether he should admire Smiley, and he just wanted himself to die in the Soviet Union.

What Karla didn't realize was, that he would be head of the K. G. B.. The Head of Soviet Communist K. G. B., sees Smiley's cigarette lighter, as the religious see an icon, and he is not religious himself.