He's good at his job. And the nature of his job is to orchestrate death, in the name of information; to manipulate people for a greater good that from an up close and personal level is hard to put above all else... he can't afford to see
people, he has to keep his eyes on the overall wellbeing of the nation. Otherwise... england would be screwed.
I dont
like him as such but I get it, I suppose. Though some comments - ie. Alex being acceptable collateral damage, especially in the first few books... like he's something to be used once and tossed out... that got to me. But then I guess it was supposed to
