Le Carré, Of The Previous Century

I've always thought of John le Carré as a role model.  He writes genre for a large non-genre audience, and pleases the critics as well.  (Of course it helps that he wrote the single best book, till that time anyway, in his chosen field.)I've just finished listening to David Oyelowo read the audio book version of le Carré's 2006 novel Mission Song, a book set against the terrifying background of the present-day eastern Congo.  The book's protagonist is an interpreter— someone who, by...