Our Kind Of Traitor: John le Carré - Tapa blanda

A story with frenzy at its heart . . . A compelling tale of deceit, dialogue and the author's own despair (James Naughtie)

[A] bullet train of a thriller . . . part vintage John le Carré and part Alfred Hitchcock (The New York Times)

If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carré's latest thriller (Evening Standard)

Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carré has done it again for our nasty new age (The Times)

Few literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. A teasing, beguiling, masterly performance (Sunday Times)

A remarkable book by the master (Daily Telegraph)

Pitch perfect. Le Carré's greatest gift may be his ear, which allows him to pick up a tremor of fear in the softest voice or a false note in any exchange of words and play with them to his heart's content (Sunday Telegraph)

One of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man's land (Los Angeles Times)

I would suggest immortality for John le Carré, who I believe one of the most intelligent and entertaining writers working today (Chicago Tribune)