A Legacy of Spies
Author: Carré, John le
ISBN: 9780241981610
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 14 May 2018
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carre returns to the Cold War in this thrilling masterpiece
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good.
Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carre has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.
ISBN: 9780241981610
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 14 May 2018
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carre returns to the Cold War in this thrilling masterpiece
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good.
Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carre has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.
