The final book I will finish in 2020 is John Le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, which is not a spy story but falls into the detective fiction genre. It is valuable for its clever mystery but more importantly for providing insights into the mind of George Smiley, who will prominently reappear in Le Carré's novels. Most pointedly, there is his observation that "we just don't know what people are like, we can never tell; there isn't any truth about human beings, no formula that meets each one of us."
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