The Little Drummer Girl | Characters
For the first time in his novels, le Carre has chosen a woman as a central character. She is Charlie, a "half-gypsy, half-flower child" mediocre British actress, inspired by his own half-sister Charlotte. Charlie is chosen, kidnapped, and brainwashed by the Israeli Kurtz to avenge the terrorist attacks on Jews throughout Europe and the Middle East. Charlie must play a kind of double agent, a role considered implausible and unconvincing by Walter Laqueur and other critics.
In preparing his work, le Carre visited the Middle East, Beirut, a PLO prisoner of war camp, and talked with...
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