Karla's Choice
'Reads like a lost le Carrè' Richard Osman
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- 14,99 €
Publisher Description
DISCOVER THE MOST-TALKED ABOUT THRILLER OF THE YEAR . . .
‘Reads like a lost le Carrè. Smiley is back at the Circus in the safest of hands’ RICHARD OSMAN
‘Karla’s Choice is a note-perfect tribute to le Carré that feels fresh and new’ MICK HERRON
‘Le Carre’s legacy is in good hands – Smiley is back with a vengeance!’ IAN RANKIN
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It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus.
With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy.
But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead.
But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy…
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Set in the missing decade between two iconic novels starring George Smiley, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, this is an extraordinary, thrilling return to the world of spymaster John le Carré, written by the author’s son and acclaimed novelist, Nick Harkaway.
‘An exceptional espionage novel in its own right’ WILLIAM BOYD
‘Harkaway has done an extraordinarily good job with his father’s legacy’ TELEGRAPH
‘An accomplished homage and a captivating thriller’ THE ECONOMIST
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
George Smiley returns in this terrific spy saga from John Le Carré's son, Titanium Noir author Nicholas Cornwell (writing under the Harkaway pseudonym). In 1963, Hungarian publisher Laszlo Bánáti fails to show up at his office in London. Instead, a Soviet assassin arrives, telling Bánáti's assistant, Susanna Gero, "I am here to kill your Mr. Bánáti... but I have changed my mind." Gero cleverly manages to bring the would-be assassin to British intelligence, who task the happily retired Smiley with finding Bánáti and figuring out why the Soviets want him dead. Smiley plunges behind Soviet lines, launching a labyrinthine mission that puts him back on the trail of his old nemesis, Karla, head of the KGB, and fills in narrative gaps between Le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Longtime Smiley fans will delight in the enormous cast of familiar characters, the thoughtful meditations on the morality of espionage, and the lived-in tradecraft. Harkaway brilliantly channels his late father's voice, and in the process delivers an essential new chapter for Smiley and Karla.
