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John Le Carre - A Legacy of Spies (2nd Hand Paperback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9780241981610
Synopsis
Peter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Service, has long retired to Brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to London.
After 25 years, Smiley is back . . . The reason? Cold War ghosts have come back to haunt him.
Intelligence operations that were once the toast of the Service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the Berlin Wall. Somebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater good . . .
Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Suspense & Thriller
- Published : 2017 (This Ed. 2018 - Penguin)
- ISBN : 9780241981610
- SKU : B001252
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carre. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' - Daily Mail.
'Splendid, fast-paced, riveting' - Andrew Marr, Sunday Times.
'Remarkable. Vintage John le Carre. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carre's writing has got richer with age.' - The Times.
'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' - Ian McEwan.
'The old magic still holds . . . I might as well say it: to read this simmering novel is to come in from the cold' - The New York Times.
'What are we to make of Smiley? What is his game? Do we like him? Admire him? Every le Carre reader has wrestled with these questions - and A Legacy of Spies brings them to the fore more directly than any previous book' - Vanity Fair.
'Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched, it is a triumph' - Daily Mail.
'We are back in the more interesting territory of moral uncertainty and failure. What, Smiley asks, was he fighting for?' - TLS.
The Author
David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950's and 1960's, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service.
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