The changing alignment in world order since the fall of the Berlin Wall has put a dampener on one particular genre, the spy thriller. Without the shadowy battalions of the Cold War, even James Bond has struggled to find his foe, increasingly turning in on his personal demons. The best recent film examples have often been period pieces, like The Lives of Others or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Meanwhile, the master of the prose form, John Le Carré, has had little trouble finding new fault lines and allegiances, emerging sources of power and fresh layers of nuance within the intelligence community. His 2008 novel A Most Wanted Man wound a double strand of post 9/11 terrorism and the legacies of an old security apparatus.The scene is Hamburg (a location depicted with convincing detail by