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Who Spies on the Spies?

August 8, 2018 by Jake 2 Comments

Read for the CBR Bingo: Cover The challenge of Alan Moore’s legendary graphic novel Watchmen is how to make the superheroes in that universe accountable when they do things outside of their government’s control. This leads to the famous tagline “Who watches the Watchmen?” Such a lens is turned on espionage in Le Carré’s famed novel which, despite being in print for almost fifty years, was given a new cover for its recent round of Penguin re-publishing that will instantly be seen as iconic. I am middle-brow […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: #cover, #JohnLeCarre, #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy, cbr10bingo, espionage, spy

Jake's CBR10 Review No:4 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: #cover, #JohnLeCarre, #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy, cbr10bingo, espionage, spy ·
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Recent Comments

  • Mary Benedict
    on Maybe not all things need to be published
    It was wrong to publish that stuff regardless. I seriously doubt it was with AR's consent and if it was,...
  • esmemoria
    on Painfully Unfunny
    You got that right!
  • BlackRaven
    on Painfully Unfunny
    Sounds like this book was 167 pages too long
  • BlackRaven
    on The Joke’s On You
    Sounds like The Stench was all the title needed
  • esmemoria
    on The Joke’s On You
    Practically every sentence is a joke omg, I recently finished a book like this. Hated it.
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