This is an analysis of the first 10 postCold Warnovels of one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction.
This book challenges distinctions between "popular" and "serious" literature by recognizing le Carré as one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction, contributing to an overdue reassessment of his literary stature. Le Carré's ten postCold War novels constitute a distinctive subset of his espionage fiction in their response to the momentous changes in geopolitics that began in the 1990s. Through a close reading of these novels, Snyder traces howamid the "War on Terror" and transnationalismle Carré weighs what is at stake in this conflict of deeply invested ideologies.