Review: The Honourable Schoolboy

Bloated, bogged down in places, but still loved it, albeit less than Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy . The opening scene with the journalists in Hong Kong was especially painful, evoking unpleasant flashbacks of Thady Boy Ballagh's court antics . But the strength of le Carré's character work kept me going, as did the crackling and atmospheric prose. Loved hopping around colonial Hong Kong and…