"ए परफेक्ट स्पाय" ह्या जॉन ल कॅरे ह्यांच्या कदाचित सर्वोत्कृष्ष्ट पुस्तकाचा एपिग्राम पहा:
"A man who has two women loses his soul.
But a man who has two houses loses his head." (Proverb)
दोन घरे असणाऱ्या सर्वांनी लक्षात ठेवण्यासारखा आहे!
माझ्याकडे त्यांची अनेक पुस्तके आहेत पण त्यातील फक्त एकच मी पूर्ण वाचले आहे.
“Ready?” he asked.
She nodded.
Taking her arm he began walking deliberately across the strip. Liz wanted to run, but he held her so tightly that she could not. They were half-way towards the wall now, the brilliant semi-circle of light drawing them forward, the beam directly above them. Leamas was determined to keep Liz very close to him, as if he were afraid that Mundt would not keep his word and somehow snatch her away at the last moment.
They were almost at the wall when the beam darted to the north, leaving them momentarily in total darkness. Still holding Liz’s arm, Leamas guided her forward blindly, his left hand reaching ahead of him until suddenly he felt the coarse, sharp contact of the cinder brick. Now he could discern the wall and, looking upwards, the triple-strand of wire and the cruel hooks which held it. Metal wedges, like climbers’ pitons, had been driven into the brick. Seizing the highest one, Leamas pulled himself quickly upwards until he had reached the top of the wall. He tugged sharply at the lower strand of wire and it came towards him, already cut.
“Come on,” he whispered urgently, “start climbing.”
Laying himself flat he reached down, grasped her upstretched hand and began drawing her slowly upwards as her foot found the first metal rung.
Suddenly the whole world seemed to break into flame; from everywhere, from above and beside them, massive lights converged, bursting upon them with savage accuracy...." (John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold', 1963)
