I like this protagonist more but I still want Katya to kick him in the balls

[cimorene]

Actually, the afterword on The Russia House about le Carré being followed around Gorbachev's Moscow on his first post-Communist trip in 87 is the funniest and most memorable thing I've read by him so far (though admittedly much less thrilling than his novels).

There's a great opportunity for humor there that in his fiction is usually only visible at its darkest, but one shouldn't forget that most of the time it's more The Death of Stalin than Smiley's People.