![]() "A Perfect Spy" was less a spy story than a caustic portrait of Rick Pym, a treacherous British con artist and charmer based with searing fidelity on the author's own father. ![]() ![]() What made this new book possible, he says, was the one that came before. Le Carre' made Barley his template, upon which he could etch impressions of the Soviet metamorphosis and then transfer to the page a moment in history he considers epochal: "a blink of a star," he says, when everything changed. Le Carre' returned to the Soviet Union that autumn, this time with Barley, the hero of the work-in-progress, "at my side," so to speak. The visit would inspire his new novel, "The Russia House," a fable of spycraft in its senescence, a search for the value of secrets in the age of glasnost. And what was certain from the world news was that the monolith was breaking up." Le Carre' is thinking back to the spring of 1987, when he made his first trip, ever, to Moscow. "I had written about a Soviet Union that was monolithic, as indeed in the days of the Cold War in many ways it was. He is gazing out the window of his sitting room in Hampstead, hands behind his head. "I had never supposed that the ice would thaw in my own lifetime," le Carre' says. John le Carre' had been chiseling the fine dark lines of the Cold War in book after book for more than 25 years, and now the material had turned soft on him, fluid, fraught with frightening possibility. ![]() ![]() LONDON - A couple of years ago, the ice began to melt, outside and inside. ![]()
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