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THE PENGUIN JOHN LE CARRÉ HARDBACK COLLECTION ...

'A brilliant novel of deception  love and trust to join his supreme cannon' Evening
Standard'Vintage le Carré. Immensely clever  breathtaking. Really  not since The Spy Who Came
in from the Cold has le Carré 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 Carré
has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.'Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched.
There is only one le Carré. Eloquent  subtle  sublimely paced' Daily Mail'Splendid  fast-paced
riveting' Andrew Marr  Sunday Times'Remarkable. Vintage John le Carré. It gives the reader  at
long last  pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine  le Carré's
writing has got richer with age. Don't wait for the paperback' The Times'Perhaps the most
significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank'
Ian McEwan'The literary event of the Autumn' Evening Standard'One of those writers who will be
read a century from now' Robert Harris

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