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Stephen Garrett, Diego Calva, Tom Hiddleston, Georgi Banks-Davies and David Farr at 2026 Deadline Contenders Television held at the Directors Guild of America on April 26, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photos by JC Olivera/Chad Salvador/Deadline via Getty Images)

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Team Night Manager

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deadline: ‘The Night Manager’ team - Tom Hiddleston, Diego Calva, David Farr, Georgi Banks-Davies, and Stephen Garrett - joined us in the Deadline Studio at Prime Experience

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2026 Deadline Contenders Television - The Night Manager Season 2

Stephen Garrett, Diego Calva, Tom Hiddleston, Georgi Banks-Davies and David Farr at 2026 Deadline Contenders Television held at the Directors Guild of America on April 26, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/Deadline via Getty Images)

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Rupert with David Farr at opening night of David’s A Dead Body In Taos.

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This more idealistic fervour in le Carré stems, it seems to me, from his years studying German literature in philosophy in Bern and then at Oxford. Like so many of his protagonists (most tellingly Magnus Pym in A Perfect Spy), le Carré is deeply attracted to European idealism. But his beloved British spies are often tasked with identifying and betraying it.

Silverview takes this to its logical but tragic extension, as Proctor slowly and inexorably tracks down his man. But somewhere along the way, in this sad and lonely book, Proctor’s sense of mission stalls, the Suffolk landscape becalms him, the urgency is diluted by a wistful sense of loss. It feels like the great elegiac German writer W.G. Sebald, much referenced in le Carré’s novel, and who lived and worked in East Anglia, begins to haunt the master of conspiracy Le Carré and to question the worth of it all.

Silverview is a slim volume but contained within it is the very kernel of le Carré’s philosophy. It is in a sense a disappointed philosophy – that European Romanticism, for all its glory, created only fascism and totalitarian communism. That both those terrors were threats that needed fighting. But that English romanticism is a fading rose, that the decent Englishman is no longer to be relied upon, and that when push comes to shove, le Carré will always vote with the idealist. For this reason Silverview is a true testament to its author, the greatest espionage writer of the last century.

Beginnings and Endings: A Review of John le Carré's Silverview from David Farr

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