A Le Carré, John 1931-2020 creator author. text novel -uk 2022 2017 monographic eng

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276 pages ; 20 cm 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. general JOHN LE CARRE Smiley, George (Fictitious character) Fiction English fiction Spy fiction Intelligence service Fiction Intelligence officers Fiction Cold War Fiction 823.92 9780241396384 PPAK 230102 20230103121500.0 eng