For me, it was The Secret Pilgrim. It catches Le Carre at the precise moment when the final scales fell away from his eyes, and he found himself unable to defe

For me, it was The Secret Pilgrim. It catches Le Carre at the precise moment when the final scales fell away from his eyes, and he found himself unable to defend even partially the corporatist state that his characters had inhabited and defended at such personal moral cost for the better part of half a century. Edit: Lol, apparently this precise article was posted in 2016...when I posted this precise comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10862489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10862489