John le Carré giver i denne bog sit billede af terrorismen. Handlingen er vel ikke så elementært spændende, som man er vandt til hos le Carré. Men bogen er uhyggelig, hvis man læser den som netop et billede af virkeligheden. Gør det.
Den radikale berlinerstudent citeres for: "Violence plays into the hands of the reactionaries. It's self-defeating. He said it over and over again. Dozen different ways, p. 388" Det har han og le Carré (?) ret i, men bogen viser også, at ikke-vold hverken sikrer resultater eller overlevelse.
Om den amerikanske hemmelige agent skriver ham: "Mundy has decided what it is he feels about Rourke. There is something fundamentally untouched about him, something offensively virginal. The lines Mundy previously mistook for life experience are the lines of an overindulged child who has never been beaten up by anybody's police, or crossed bad borders, or been locked away in the White Hotel, or hog-tied and chained to the floor of a helicopter. In this respect he embodies what Mundy considers the least attractive characteristic of both our Western leaders and their spokesmen: a levitational self-belief that nimbly transcends the realities of human suffering", p. 392. Beskrivelsen passer på mange almindelige amerikanere og på vestlige ledere idag. Vi savner Stauning, Per Albin Hansson, Liebknecht og Jaurés, folk med menneskelig erfaring.
Derfor siger berlinerstudenten også om de hemmelige tjenesters folk: "They are trying to put us into one bed. Liberals, socialists, Trotskyists, Communists, anarchists, antiglobalists, peace protesters: we are all Sympis, all pinkos. We all hate Jews and America and we are the secret admirers of Osama", p. 414.
Og en hemmelig agent til en anden: "'There's a new Grand Design about
....It's called preemptive naïveté, and it rests on the assumption that
everyone in the world would like to live in Dayton, Ohio, under one God, no
prizes for guessing whose god that is," p.431.
Orla Jordal, 2007
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