The Russia House Summary
John le Carré

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Part of what makes le Carre's fiction appealing is its emphasis on human nature. Le Carre's novels are not about great armies of spies that clash in the night, deciding the fate of all humanity. Instead, they are stories of individual people, whose personalities shape what they do. Central in The Russia House is Barley's personality, not the characteristics of his government, or his spy agency, or the Western world.

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