Review: If Kafka had written thrillers, he would have written like this
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
There is a wealth of spy stories where the heroes are seized by doubt, for instanceA Delicate Truth: A Novel, but the dimension of the absurd is rarely as deep as in this one. I found it hard to read, because it is hard to be confronted to what agents - or spies have to do. I kept thinking ofThe Tartar Steppebut that is a book where nothing happens, whereas here you are constantly confronted with irritating mysteries that make little sense until the author wraps it up.It is a good book. If you can keep reading while your anxiety mounts, you will enjoy it. If not, you really need to be a cool intellectual to survive it.If you read to forget that real life is tough, it is defitely not for you.