I think Le Carre's heart was in the right place, he knows annoying people were behaving annoyingly, it's just they are very annoying so it's overall not very enjoyable. It's like I know these people are annoying me from the first look but I had to be there in their meetings, it's like bad workplace.

I very much like the plotline with Mickey. please do more the 'i killed my friend because of my desire of fame/status, I put together my friend's broken body, I drove him to wasteland graveyard in an ambulance under the carnival fireworks, and I put his blown up head beside the window so people gave way to me as they thought I was taking him to hospital, then I walked down the downwards slop during the bombing because I condemned myself'