The tv version of this 90s le carre standalone spy thriller absolutely entranced me when I watched it last year, and I must say the book did as well - slower, more enigmatic, but incredibly effective, had me hooked from the start.
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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