San Antonio College Library

This book explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, it analyses his work in light of key topics in 20th-century history, including containment of Communism, decolonization, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, the Cambridge spy-ring, the Vietnam War, the 70s oil crisis and Thatcherism.

In this first extended study of Le Carre's novels, David Monaghan aims to provide for Le Carré readers an examination of that writer's major concerns and achievement.

A prolific author with millions of fans, and novels that routinely climb the bestseller charts, John le Carre is more than simply a genre writer. Myron J. Aronoff contends that le Carre's spy novels grapple with one of the most pressing political issues facing the world community today: what extreme - and often undemocratic - means are justifiable to protect democracy in this post-Cold War era? As such, Aronoff demonstrates that le Carre's novels...