Adam Sisman On The Secret Life of John le Carré | 5x15

Adam Sisman is a writer specialising in biography, living in Bristol, England. He is the author of Boswell's Presumptuous Task, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the biographer of John le Carré, A. J. P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Among his other works are two volumes of letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews. "Mr. Sisman has an ideal biographical style: inquisitive and open, serious yet not severe," Dwight Garner wrote of Sisman's life of Hugh Trevor-Roper in the New York Times: "I’d read him on anyone.”
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[@sarawoods1450]

Very insightful analysis. A hero with feet of clay mixed with the ancient proclivity to worship what is not to be worshiped.

[@timor64]

The last line is the most insightful. Some people are so charming they can keep breaking the rules and no-one minds. Even people who know they are lying pretend to believe them just to enjoy the experience of being charmed.

[@sarawoods1450]

And you are correct to see his betrayals of people around him as a false playing at what he saw as spy games.