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John Le Carre - Agent Running In The Field (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Sunday Times Bestseller.
Agent Running in the Field is a 2019 novel by John le Carré published on 17 October 2019. It was le Carré's final novel to be published before his death in 2020.
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.
Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : As New
- Category : Fiction - Suspense & Thriller
- Published : 2019 (This Edition 2020 - Penguin)
- ISBN : 9780241986547
- SKU : B002609
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'Blisteringly contemporary . . . Each new book from le Carré is refreshingly different and uniquely compelling' - The Economist.
'A very classy entertainment about political ideals and deception . . . laced with fury at the senseless vandalism of Brexit and of Trump. Le Carré is the master of the spy genre' - Guardian.
'Subtle, wry and seamless, it's an utter joy, from first page to last' - Daily Mail.
'The old spycraft still reigns supreme . . . all of the things you want and expect from a high-quality Le Carre thriller are here.' - The Times.
'What's most remarkable is the way in which le Carre can still produce set-pieces of a type that he more or less invented 50 years ago and, at the age of 87, do them better than his scores of imitators.' - The Sunday Telegraph.
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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