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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
At nearly fifty, Nat is certain his years as an agent runner are over, but Britain's Secret Intelligence Service offers him an alternative to retirement: take over a small substation with a group of rough and unready spies. With this new assignment come some alarming developments that all seem to revolve around Nat's new badminton partner, of all people, and he has to stage one last plot to keep everything in check.
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 9
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years 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...
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
At a small British trade fair in Moscow, a message of global importance is made up of three very fragile human links: a Soviet physicist (code name Bluebird) burdened with a secret knowledge; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the papers are entrusted; and Barley Blair, a bewildered English publisher pressed into service by British Intelligence to ferret out the source of the document. A magnificent story of love, betrayal, and courage. The Russia...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John Le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his highly anticipated memoir, Le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with...
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