A Legacy of Spies

Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement, the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, The Timesbr>br>''A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon'' Evening Standardbr>br>''Vintage le Carre. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carre exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect'' John Banville, Guardianbr>br>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. 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 . . .br>br>''Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carre. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced'' Daily Mailbr>br>''Splendid, fast-paced, riveting'' Andrew Marr, Sunday Timesbr>br>''Remarkable. 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 Timesbr>br>''Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He''s in the first rank'' Ian McEwanbr>br>''One of those writers who will be read a century from now'' Robert Harris>

Product details

• Authors: John le Carré, John le Carré
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780241981610
• ISBN: 978-0-241-98161-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Series: George Smiley; Ein George-Smiley-Roman / George Smiley Novels; 181 POCHE; 181 POCHE; George Smiley; Ein Smiley-Roman
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Military, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Thrillers / Terrorism, FICTION / Noir, FICTION / Thrillers / Legal, Narrative theme: Politics, Political / legal thriller, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modern and contemporary fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period)