Question on “A Legacy of Spies”
I just finished “A Legacy of Spies” in my first read through of the Smiley series. Loved the series, Le Carre is one of the best writers I’ve ever encountered.
I enjoyed A Legacy of Spies, although was confused about timelines similar to other readers who have posted here. There was one passage in particular that really confused me: >!Christoph, Alec’s son, states that he’s visited his father in prison. If I remember correctly, Alec was in prison during the early stages of Operation Windfall in England. During the passage where Guillam and Alec visit Christoph, he’s living in Germany with his mother. So when would Christoph have visited his father while in prison? When I initially read it, I thought it was a reveal that Leamas hadn’t been shot dead at the wall and instead had languished in an East German prison, but then I realized that Christoph and his mother lived ostensibly in West Germany and was even more confused.!<
As you can see, I’m very confused! I’d appreciate it if someone with better reading comprehension than I could explain this part of the novel to me.