Финальная мудрость Джона Ле Карре

[thagastan]

...содержится в словах его персонажа Аркадия, человека с равноудачными криминальной и шпионской карьерами:

"And you Brits, what do you do? You suck his dick and invite him to tea with your Queen. You take our black money and wash it for us. You welcome us if we’re big enough crooks. You sell us half London. You wring your hands when we poison our traitors and you say please, please, dear Russian friends, trade with us. Is this what I risked my life for? I don’t believe so. I believe you Brits sold me a cartload of hypocritical horseshit. So don’t tell me you’ve come here to remind me of my liberal conscience and my Christian values and my love of your great big British Empire. That would be an error. Do you understand me?’"
 

(John le Carré, Agent Running in the Field, 2020)