That Ferris survives this man's fate is highly unlikely. He feels one local comrade has been abandoned to face a certain death, and after he sets up an innocent architect to unwittingly play the head of the fictitious terrorist agency, he single-handedly tries to save his life from an inevitable attack. The most intriguing aspect of Ferris' activities is his growing disillusionment with them. Here we have a spy who doesn't come in from the cold, crossed with Jason Bourne. But Le Carre would never be guilty of such preposterous thriller-style action. Some of the characters seem worthy of Le Carre, especially Hoffman ( Russell Crowe), Ferris' CIA handler, and Hani Salaam ( Mark Strong), the brilliant and urbane head of Jordanian security. I can imagine a similar story as told by John Le Carre, even right down to the local beauty. Why will Al Saleem risk everything to come out of hiding? Jealousy, I think. His brainstorm is to fabricate a rival terrorist organization out of thin air, fabricate a fictitious leader, create a convincing evidence trail and use it to smoke out Al Saleem, the secretive leader of the real terrorists (a surrogate for Osama bin Laden). This is Roger Ferris ( Leonardo DiCaprio), who seems to operate as a self-directed freelance in the war against a deadly terrorist organization (obviously a double for al-Qaeda).
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