?Entertaining . . . a riotous, readable novel . . . A worthy successor to Graham Greene?s most wicked entertainments.??The New York Times
?Riveting . . . Le Carré has cut another masterpiece.??Los Angeles Times
?What makes le Carré the reigning grand master of espionage fiction? . . . Craft, certainly; he maintains an almost magnificent control of material, pace, dialogue, characterization.??The Baltimore Sun
?Brilliant . . . Le Carré remains fair in front of his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive.??Publishers Weekly (starred review)« less