This wonderful cold war spy thriller classic pretty much created and defined the counter espionage thriller style, as I understand it, and all I can say is it lives up to every bit of praise - dense, thoughtful, taut, touching.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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