Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a
bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career
Edward a Polish émigré shows up at his door with a very keen interest in Julian's new
enterprise and a lot of knowledge about his family history. And when a letter turns up at the
door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak the investigations lead him to
this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between
innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete
masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age John le Carré asks what you owe to your
country when you no longer recognise it.
