END OF THE QUEST

George Smiley continues relentlessly, as Sherlock Holmes Moriarty Captain Ahab or the White Whale, his double installed on the other side of the Iron Curtain: Karla, the man who destroyed from within the British Secret Service. It goes back to a dead atmosphere until weakness Karla, thread after thread unravels the skein of lies concealing the secret as hoped and plays his last Check Point Charlie, the legendary crossing point between East and West Berlin;

Besides its huge capacity to create a thriller that only loose the last page, John Le Carré key here, by the thickness of the characters metaphysical, symbolic stakes of what we are, what we do and how it deep or not you and the weight of fate that affects the paths of the protagonists ("replay the canceled part of his life because of rain"), simply the romantic genius.