| The Secret Pilgrim Contributor(s): Le Carré, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345504429 ISBN-13: 9780345504425 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside . . . John le Carre has seized this impossible turning point in history to give the most visceral experience yet of the brilliant and base, delicate and brutal world of spydom. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008274244 |
| Series: Mortalis |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.66" W x 8" (0.85 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable. To train new spies for this uncertain future, one must show them the past. Enter the man called Ned, the loyal and shrewd veteran of the Circus. With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East--an electrifying, clandestine tour of honorable old knights and notorious traitors, triumph and failure, passion and hate, suspicion, sudden death, and old secrets that haunt us still. Praise for The Secret Pilgrim "Intriguing . . . magisterial . . . The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled. . . . Lucidly and elegantly controlled."--The New York Times Book Review "Scorching . . . fascinating . . . seductive . . . a dazzler."--Entertainment Weekly "Powerful . . . a highly absorbing tale."--Newsday "Extraordinary."--USA Today |