A Legacy of Spies: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XBP2W3M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 390 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The miracle is that the author can revisit his best-known story and discover layer upon layer of fresh deception beneath it.”—KirkusPraise for John le Carré“One of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man’s land.” —Los Angeles Times “No other writer has charted—pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers—the public and secret histories o
John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He divides his time between London and Cornwall. . For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British intelligence during the Cold War
In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carré and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new.. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book—his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas