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Karla’s Choice

In Karla’s Choice, author Nick Harkaway ably updates his father’s iconic George Smiley novels while lovingly preserving the tone and mood of the original novels.

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Review of ‘Karla’s Choice’

It seems like an impossible task to resurrect a beloved character, much less to do so in the voice of the most iconic espionage thriller writer after Ian Fleming. But in Karla’s Choice, author Nick Harkaway, son of the late John le Carré, manages to accomplish both, adding more nuance to the…

Behind the Book by Nick Harkaway

How Nick Harkaway, son of the late John le Carré, channeled his father’s voice to write a new George Smiley novel.

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