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, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his 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 are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good.Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carr has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carr. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced Daily MailSplendid, fastpaced, riveting Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesRemarkable. Vintage John le Carr. 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. Dont wait for the paperback The TimesPerhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. Hes in the first rank Ian McEwanThe literary...

Binding: Hardback;288 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FHD; Weight: 406 g; Dimensions: 127 x 199 x 24

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