“Snyder makes an entirely plausible case for reading these novels as narratives of intrigue which at the same time include elaborate, often very ironic dialogues about issues of world security.”—David Seed, University of Liverpool, author of Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives
“Makes the case that le Carré’s work is far more significant than mere genre fiction. In this respect Snyder links le Carré’s liberal humanism with that of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Graham Greene.”—Myron J. Aronoff, Rutgers University, author of The Spy Novels of John le Carré: Balancing Ethics and Politics
“Snyder skillfully directs us toward le Carré’s central revelation: that the various whirlwinds that Western democracies have inherited since the Wall’s fall have been sown by their own arrogance, ignorance, and complacency.”—Cates Baldridge, professor of English and American Literatures, Middlebury College, author of Graham Greene's Fictions: The Virtues of Extremity
"Snyder has elucidated the political resonance of le Carré’s post-Cold War fictional worlds and demonstrated their timely prescience. This thorough study will be useful for scholars of both contemporary British literature and popular culture. Furthermore, Snyder's book will be of interest to those who study the Cold War as well as the relationship between fiction and transnationalism."—Papers on Language and Literature
