Colin Firth

Prior to the publication of His latest novel, Writer and former MI6 spy John le Carré speaks to the BBC about Our World leaders and why "human decency" must be in place.

A chance meeting in a badminton club, of all places. A couple of words. A connection is made. Nat, who is disturbed by the chaotic politics of the moment, is spinning a web in which he knows he will be caught. Spies, loyalty and betrayal. John le Carré is back.

His latest book, the Agent Runs in The Field , His 25th novel, and it shows a Writer who comes Out of 88 on The Day after the book, whose concern faded with the meaning of patriotism with The Years , but it has to be sharper. This is not a crude story about the Brexit, but there is hardly a page in the subtle and haunting questions will not be asked about what kind of country we are, and can, in the midst of this turmoil.

We talked long into the summer. "It would be impossible to write in the moment, without speaking, inside The State of The Nation - we are a part of it, I'm a part of it," he said. "I'm depressed. I am ashamed, and I think, shares in the book. "

But this story - "it is a book to entertain the allegedly. I think it does. I'm a Storyteller " is as much about The Past as The Present . We talked about the early days, in writing His successful novel when he was still in service in the MI6. "If I go right back to The Spy who Came in from the cold we are dealing with the same conflict between the personal object is the personal obligation and duty of The State what You owe to the society in its organised form. "

The theme on which he composed so many variations over More Than five decades, has become more disturbing through The Years . The Strange simplicities of the Cold War - the Two Sides knew each other for what they were - have given way to a confusing mix of loyalties. For an author like le Carré, it is As If the events have conspired, painfully, in His place.

It's to never be afraid of The Most difficult questions. "If MI6, By Accident or design, came on absolutely irrefutable evidence that Trump had nothing good in Russia , what would You do with that intelligence? And, by the way, what would they do to our politicians?"

Behind the intricacies of this story, cut from the same cloth as many of His most beautiful books, there is a fear that such questions may not be answered in the way they once were. He produced it, as always, some sparkling throwaway lines that spring from the page. The presidents of Russia and the United States , and Putin, "smiled His jailer's Smile ".

An interview with le Carré always invigorating. He hisses, with an energy, its force comes from the observation, gossip, a fascination with the character, and Out of anger also. A long conversation will always anecdotage interrupted by hilarious, delivered with the pleasure of a real raconteur, Mr, but also a sense of melancholy and loss.

We talked about George Smiley to be a great character, and a Cameo Appearance at the end of His last book, A legacy of the spies, they complain about the fragmentation of the cultural Europe, had, he thought, he defended, and Peter Guillam , who in this book also loses a little of His faith.

"Both of them were looking in the UK from outside. Both of them a huge piece of your life had given, to spy for The Cause . Now You are asked in this book and in this book, The Protagonists are asked, whether they gave actually your life, for The Right thing, whether or not The Cause is no longer present. "

This explains the Writer is impatient energy, because he shares the fear, especially about the Europe that fascinated him, from teenage days, when he fell in love with Germany, its language and culture. It is a place where His mind is always turning.

I mentioned, without much about the plot, it was a book about the nature of decency.

"funny, it is a word that is used more in the German Language than Our Own these days. It is a concept is actually deeply rooted in the German culture and also in their medieval stories where there is, finally, The Secret . You had to learn moderation and decency in your life. And You have to sign up as decent men, and strangely enough, I find in any of my books, indecent, than I have in My Own life, as decent men, and that is the longing behind the sad truth.

"The longing, and this is a kind of romance. "

He spoke about the love to own country, and His despair, what he thinks is the narrow Nationalism , the "quite different from patriotism. For Nationalism , You need Enemies . "

For a Writer who has always enjoyed juggling the obligations of personal loyalty, with the duty of public service, it is, of course, that the current state of the policy has, to him a kind of painful excitement. It is what he is on all the time.

"What scares me about nostalgia is that it is a political weapon. Politicians are the creation of a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and sell it, really, as something we return to again and again. "

And for the political class, a contempt that grows with The Years .

"the politicians love the chaos. Don't ever think otherwise. It gives You authority, and it gives You power. It gives You profile. The idea that they ' ll fix it For You . "He is in despair about what he believes, is absolutism on the political right and left, libertarian, and Leninism and with the same goal. To start again after the chaos.

We return to the book, and its subject - an outrageously romantic, running through all the work.

"It was Smiley 's. in the Midst of all this turmoil, all these lies and all this adjustment, and all the rewriting of history, human decency has to survive. "

Agent is Running in The Field published on 17 October by Penguin Books

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