John Le CarrÃ© reaches beyond the thriller in The Constant Gardener. John Le CarrÃ©. Headline Â£16.99, pp456. Buy it at BOL. John Le CarrÃ©'s novels may go on the shelves next to Tom Clancy (and sell as many copies) but if his popularity is due to a belief that he adheres to the Boy Scout code of fiction, then his public are reading him for the wrong reasons.
If you want to even use the term, the best way to distinguish a dive is a bar that doesn't relish in being one, a good piece of evidence to look for in these bars is actually some failed attempt to update or become cool.
Your only hope is to hit him and hit him good. Dive bar, or classy joint, it still goes down. Here's your Internet crash course on how to knock a dude out courtesy of Ross Enamait, a boxing trainer and former boxer in Vernon, Conn.