I like Le Carre's plotting and his characterization, but sometimes I find his writing inscrutable, which is to say, extremely hard to follow. That seems partly intentional, as if an extension of the byzantine machinations of the competing conspirators that the book depicts, and yet, it makes it difficult to read. All the same, I intend to finish the trilogy of Karla books, at least, and will likely read others by JLC in the future.