Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement<\/i>, the Evening Standard<\/i>, the Daily Telegraph<\/i>, the Guardian<\/i>, The Times
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‘A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon’ Evening Standard
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‘Vintage le Carr\u00c3\u00a9. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold<\/i> has le Carr\u00c3\u00a9 exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect’ John Banville, Guardian<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Peter 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 . . .<\/p>\n
‘Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carr\u00c3\u00a9. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced’ Daily Mail<\/i>
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‘Splendid, fast-paced, riveting’ Andrew Marr, Sunday Times<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Remarkable. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carr\u00c3\u00a9’s writing has got richer with age’ The Times<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He’s in the first rank’ Ian McEwan<\/p>\n
‘One of those writers who will be read a century from now’ Robert Harris<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[406],"product_tag":[316,1387],"class_list":{"0":"post-94270","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-crime-thrillers","6":"product_tag-espionage-spy-thriller","7":"product_tag-political-legal-thriller","8":"pa_book_author-le-carra-john","9":"pa_cover-paperback","10":"pa_dewey-823-914-edition23","11":"pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","12":"pa_imprint-penguin-books","13":"pa_language-english","14":"pa_pages-11992","15":"pa_publisher-penguin-books-ltd","16":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","18":"first","19":"onbackorder","20":"taxable","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n