'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times.'- The Guardian
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 substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence,who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
Nat is not only a spy,he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit,hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed,of all unlikely people,who will take Prue,Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.
Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time,now heartbreaking,now darkly humorous,told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241986547Number of pages: 384Weight: 330 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A very classy entertainment about political ideals and deception.'- The Guardian
'The old spycraft still reigns supreme... all of the things you want and expect from a high-quality Le Carre thriller are here.'- The Times
'What's most remarkable is the way in which le Carre can still produce set-pieces of a type that he more or less invented 50 years ago and,at the age of 87,do them better than his scores of imitators.'- The Sunday Telegraph
'... once le Carré's game is in full swing,he is close to unbeatable... a novel about spies and statecraft,and about marriage and parenthood too,with a mellow,affectionate wisdom to round out the drama and political zeal.'- The Sunday Times
'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times.'- TheGuardian
'John le Carre is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen.'-The Financial Times'No writer has ever been better at turning the act of two people talking politely to each other across a desk into a blood sport.'-TheTelegraph
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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