Article: le Carre steps out of shadows

le Carre steps out of shadows

By MARTA SALIJ

Knight Ridder Newspapers

Sunday, December 24, 2000

-- The Constant Gardener. By John le Carre. Scribner. 492 pages. $28.

How could the master of all things gray have gone so black and white? And how do we make John le Carre, spy writer nonpareil, go back into the shadows for his material again?

There must still be shadows. Even if le Carre has been without his best villain, the Soviet bloc, for a decade now, there must be some corners where it is not very clear who is good and who is opportunistic and who is bad and who is doing what it takes to survive. le Carre has built a peerless career drawing those characters in the shadows.

But you won't ...

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