{"id":400,"date":"2025-09-26T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp_stories\/?p=400"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:00:32","slug":"agent-running-in-the-field-2019-john-le-carre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Agent Running in the Field (2019) &#8211; John Le Carre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t realize how much I&#8217;ve missed reading <strong>Le Carre<\/strong> until I started this book: <br>the Brit spy stuff AND <br>the Eastern European agent stuff.  <br>Running Latvian agents, Estonians agents, going to Tbilitsi. Such loving descriptions of a place called <strong>Karlovy Vary<\/strong>, a hot springs town in Czechoslovakia got me so worked up I spent 20 min reading about it on the internet (<em>I am a sucker for hot springs, however you can work them into the story.<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really enjoyed the first half. The middle got a little tedious &#8230; I skipped some pages, then about 2\/3 through, the defining event of the whole damn book happened.  The first 2\/3 were just the build-up turns out.  The rest of the book is figuring out what to do about the mess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That got a little tedious also, but in the end all the good people in the book had good things happen for them, even though the long-term prognosis was a little fuzzy for everybody. &#8230; but that&#8217;s the Cold War for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I basically loved it! <br>I&#8217;ve always loved Le Carre&#8217;s writing!  By the end I felt like I knew the major players better than I know of my neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize how much I&#8217;ve missed reading Le Carre until I started this book: the Brit spy stuff AND the Eastern European agent stuff. Running Latvian agents, Estonians agents, going to Tbilitsi. Such loving descriptions of a place called Karlovy Vary, a hot springs town in Czechoslovakia got me so worked up I spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[68,34,69],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-europe","tag-lecarre","tag-spies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}