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"It is the early 1970s in Bonn, the small and provincial capital of West Germany. A very minor bureaucrat in the British Embassy named Leo Harting has disappeared, along with many top secret files, including the most sensitive of all: the Green File, in which records of negotiations with the German government over its potential entry into the Common Market and NATO are kept. The Foreign Office sends a tough invesigator named Alan Turner from London to look into the matter. Head of security at the embassy, Bradfield, insists Harting was a mere "temporary" worker who had no significant access to anything, but Bradfield alternately encourages and tries to shut down Turner's investigation. Other players are Ludwig Siebkron, the sinister head of the German Interior Ministry whose toughs seem to be everywhere, and Klaus Karfeld, a chemical industrialist who heads his own political party and is whipping the German right wing into a furor. Was Harting a Soviet spy who started to feel the heat and headed for Moscow? Or was something totally different going on? Le Carre drew upon his own experience as a functionary in the Bonn embassy to fill out his fifth novel, published in 1968."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
Time/era of story:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying/Terrorism Thriller
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- stopping a saboteur/spy
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Search for technology?
- state secrets
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- government investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
Ethnicity/Race
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- diplomat
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- almost none
Motive of antagonist
- revenge
The antagonists are:
- evil politicians
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths?
- 2
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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