![]() "Smiley perceived in himself the existence of a darker motive, infinitely more obscure, one which his rational mind continued to reject. A picture of Karla, his archenemy in the Russian service, hangs in his office serving as a constant reminder of his greatest objective – to remove this plague from not just the world at large, but from his own tormented mind. After rooting out a Russian mole in the British intelligence agency, George Smiley is trying to pull his team back together and pick up the pieces of a broken service. The Honourable Schoolboy is the second book in John le Carré’s Karla trilogy. That gray area in between can be quite confounding and rather perilous at times. A bit of a fairy tale, I think, because when you insert a human being into the lives of others, not everything is black and white. Stopping to question certain morals is a major blunder. They do not belong in the world of espionage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Associations with other human beings and emotions should not come into the equation. A man or woman is given a set of orders, and those orders should be followed through with no exception. This quote seems fairly elementary in substance, and I can’t help thinking how much this seems to reflect the basic expectation of the intelligence agents in this novel. ![]()
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