A review by alexkerner
A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carré

3.0

So the ending was great, with the pace of the concluding chapters really creating a riveting conclusion. Also made me hate the intelligence community more than before (although that wasn't really that difficult to do). My criticism of this novel though, is that the narrative structure is way to messy at points. Le Carre's style makes us spend significant effort figuring out what is going on, unnecessarily so. I enjoy complex plots but there should be a point to when an author decides to construct the story in such a way and here it seemed to be for the sake of doing so rather than for mudding the waters of a surprise ending.