The Secret Pilgrim

The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life.

Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years.

He illuminates the brave past and even braver present of George Smiley, his hero and mentor, who gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him - and the world - for thirty years ...

About the author

John le Carré, geboren 1931 in Poole, Dorset, studierte in Bern und Oxford Germanistik, bevor er in diplomatischen Diensten u. a. in Bonn und Hamburg tätig war. Er lebt mit seiner Frau in Cornwall und London. 2011 wurde John le Carré mit der "Goethe-Medaille" für sein "eindrucksvolles humanistisches Plädoyer" in seinem Lebenswerk ausgezeichnet.

Product details

• Authors: John Le Carre, John Le CarrÉ
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.11.2009
• EAN: 9780340994405
• ISBN: 978-0-340-99440-5
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 179 mm x 27 mm
• Series: George Smiley; LE CARRE; George Smiley; LE CARRE; Ein Smiley-Roman
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense