'The best English novel since the war'Philip Roth
Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat,consummate Englishman,loving husband,secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected Gone to ground As the hunt for Pym intensifies,the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed,the unreliable con-man father who made him,the two mentors who moulded and shaped him,and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own.
Described by le Carre as his most autobiographical novel,A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long,he no longer knows who he is.
'Le Carre understood that espionage is an extreme version of the human comedy,even the human tragedy. A Perfect Spy will very likely remain his greatest book'New Yorker
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241322482Number of pages: 672Weight: 458 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
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'One of the finest English novels of the twentieth century.'- Philip Pullman
John le Carré
One of the greatest spy novelists of all time,John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,secured him a worldwide reputation,which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People all featuring his most famous character,George Smiley,the quintessential Cold War operative. An antidote to Fleming's racier James Bond,Smiley is cool,thoughtful,somewhat academic and (superficially) "breathtakingly normal"with a somewhat ambivalent attitude to the Service and its efficacy. His other novels,thrillers which range widely covering variously political issues of the arms trade,modern conflict and drug-trafficking,include: A Most Wanted Man,Our Kind of Traitor,A Delicate Truth and the recently adapted The Night Manager. His only work of non-fiction,The Pigeon Tunnel,was a Number One bestseller in 2016.
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