John le Carre A Legacy of Spies Paperback Book

A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon Evening StandardVintage le Carr. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carr exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect John Banville, GuardianPeter 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 Carr. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced Daily MailSplendid, fastpaced, riveting Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesRemarkable. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carrs writing has got richer with age The TimesPerhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. Hes in the first rank Ian McEwanOne of those writers who will be read a century from now Robert HarrisSunday Times bestseller, September 2017 | John le Carre A Legacy of Spies Paperback Book