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A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Smiley's People | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Smiley | Reading Level: very good
Peter 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 h ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
Category: Biography
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pri ...Show more
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
Category: Crime | Thriller
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct ...Show more
Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel by John le Carré
Category: Crime | Thriller
It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall - unconfirmed and a little scandalous - ...Show more
Silverview by John le Carré
Category: Crime | Thriller | Reading Level: very good
In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. 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 only a couple of months into hi ...Show more
Silverview: The Sunday Times Bestseller by John le Carré
Category: Crime | Thriller
In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself.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 only a couple of months into his ...Show more
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré
Category: Biography
"Recounted with the storytelling lan of a master raconteur -- by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times bestselling memoir from John le Carr , the legendary author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the ...Show more
The Russia House by John le Carré
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset ...Show more
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