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1 online resource (264 pages) |
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"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 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 scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carre has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back:The Spy Who Came in from the ColdandTinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carre and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Peter Guillam and other former members of the British Secret Service face charges for decades-old intelligence operations by a generation that is unfamiliar with the dynamics of the Cold War. |
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"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 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 scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carre has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back:The Spy Who Came in from the ColdandTinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carre and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Smiley, George (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Smiley, George (Fictitious character) |
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Intelligence officers -- England -- Fiction.
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Cold War -- Fiction.
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Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
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Intelligence officers. |
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Intelligence service. |
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Fiction. |
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Mystery. |
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Suspense. |
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Thriller. |
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England. |
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Great Britain. |
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Spy stories.
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Suspense fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Le Carré, John, 1931- Legacy of spies New York, New York : Viking, [2017] 9780735225114 (DLC) 2017032695 (OCoLC)981707767 |
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9780735225121 : $65.00 |
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0735225125 : $65.00 |
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