A Legacy of Spies A Legacy of Spies

Publisher Description

'A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' Evening Standard

'Vintage le Carré. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carré exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian

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 . . .

'Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carré. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' Daily Mail

'Splendid, fast-paced, riveting' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times

'Remarkable. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carré's writing has got richer with age' The Times

'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' Ian McEwan

'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris


Sunday Times bestseller, September 2017

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2017
7 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
SELLER
Penguin Books Limited
SIZE
2.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Morris_Oxford ,

Cleverly told

It’s a cleverly told story but not particularly gripping or suspenseful. I do admire Le Carre for not taking the obvious route as the plot unfolds.

Bellacatoz ,

Wow, brings the cold war into the 21st century

Treats the reader to an intelligent read. Great to have a book which credits the reader with maturity and wits to see the emotional toll on the people of this unseen world.

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