One of the more cheerful Le Carre books is The Russia House, whose two protagonists are well portrayed by Sean Connory and Michelle Pfeiffer. It has a nice 'th

One of the more cheerful Le Carre books is The Russia House, whose two protagonists are well portrayed by Sean Connory and Michelle Pfeiffer. It has a nice 'the foxes who escaped the hounds' flavor to it that is a nice contrast to the bleakness of some of his other works. It also exposes an unpleasant historical reality: there were quite a few people within both the Soviet and American military-industrial and intelligence complexes who were unhappy to see the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, as it meant they lost their raison d'etre... Looks like they're back in business, though.