A legacy of spies
(2017)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/LE CARRE,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Group USA, 2017
DESCRIPTION
264 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780735225114, 0735225117
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the 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, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinised under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications