I'm guessing this book wasn't the best of le Carre. That, of course, doesn't mean this book was in any way bad; it wasn't. It just didn't feel as sharp and complete as other of his books I've read.
The protagonist was brilliant, a multi-linguist interpreter trapped between two worlds in every realm: Black and White, good and bad, canny and naive, married and not married, etc. Even his age of 28 seems to be a doorway between a young man and a season adult.
The rest of the book was similarly murky and uncertain, which may have been the point, but it somehow took away from the poignancy of the protagonist.
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