Awesome New Islamophobic Fiction!!

OOOoo--they weave WEBS like INSECTS, dude! This leCarre is somethin else. He captures the heart of the city that redefined the meat sandwich--heavy with guilt at the conspiracy it let run amok there, one that struck at the soul of the free world and caused two huge towers to collapse, first one, then the other--mostly due to structural failure because the fires were just too intense. I was there--though our grief was palpable behind the lumps in our throat we resolved not only to rebuild but to resist--to resist the temptation to once again forgive our attackers and blame ourselves. We would, like our most stalwart allies have been forced to, declare open season on terrorists. Not a simple and feeble "war on terror" but a real war on terrorists and the nations that may harbor them and provide them with comfort and with illicit nuclear materials. This book puts you right there when it was all happening exactly as it says in the book. Five stars.

Books of The Times
Terrorists and Spies, Weaving Their Webs

A MOST WANTED MAN

By John le Carré

323 pages. Scribner. $28.

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: October 6, 2008

John le Carré’s latest novel, “A Most Wanted Man,” is set in Hamburg, Germany, the city where Mohamed Atta and other members of Al Qaeda prepared for their assault on the United States — a “guilty city,” in one character’s words, which hatched this terrorist cell, and which, in the years since the attacks, has become a focal point for German, American and British intelligence.

It is in post-9/11 Hamburg that operatives from those three intelligence agencies play out a high-stakes game of surveillance and detention in this novel, and it is here that one illegal immigrant and terrorist suspect, and several earnest, liberal do-gooders, are caught in their nets of manipulation and betrayal.