Former Senator Bill Bradley- AAronoff convincingly relates the fictional world of John le Carré to the real world of politics and espionage. His analysis of le Carré's span style='font-family:"WP TypographicSymbols"'>=s central theme--the need to balance the conflicting demands of ethics and politics, personal integrity and public responsibility--speaks to key challenges of civil societies and democracies. Using le Carré's span style='font-family:"WP TypographicSymbols"'>=s novels, Aronoff poses challenges, such as the limits to which democracies can go in using nondemocratic means to protect democratic freedoms--for example, in the war against terrorism--without undermining those very freedoms.@

John G. Cawelti (University of Kentucky)- AThis fascinating book is the best analysis yet published of le Carré=s treatment of such Cold War themes as loyalty and betrayal, the conflict between means and ends, the ambiguous relationship between ethics and politics, and the use of espionage as a major form of international aggression. This book clearly indicates why le Carré should be considered a major political novelist in the tradition of Joseph Conrad. Aronoff=s book is one of the best, perhaps the best, study of John le Carré=s novels yet published.@

Wilson Carey McWilliams (Rutgers University)- AA great story-teller, John le Carré is also an extraordinary observer of the moral and political crises of the time, as perceptive as >The Shadow= on old-time radio. Aronoff=s analysis is worthy of George Smiley: careful, relentless and desperately shrewd, with an eye for subtle relationships and connections, invariably probing below the appearances.@