The background to John le Carré’s novels has always been amoral, but in “A Delicate Truth”, the all-powerful state has torn up the rule book.

The background to John le Carré’s novels has always been amoral, but in “A Delicate Truth”, the all-powerful state has torn up the rule book.
“It was a bad day when James Bond gave up smoking” – Allan Massie on how the latest writer to tackle 007, William Boyd, will change the secret agent’s character even further.
The James Bond brand evidently remains popular. Nobody ever got poor by underestimating the intelligence of the cinema-going public. Still the Bond movies are nice escapist stuff, just the thing doubtless for recessionary times.