'A work of rare brilliance'The TimesCharmer,fabulistand tailor to Panama's rich and powerful,Harry Pendel loves to tellstories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of largeappetites,for women,information and above all money - walks into hisshop,Harry's fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soonhe finds himself out of his depth in an international game he can neverhope to win.Le Carré's savage satire on the espionage tradeis set in a corrupt universe without heroes or honour,where theinnocent are collateral damage and treachery plays out as tragic farce.'A tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated'The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241291733Number of pages: 368Weight: 269 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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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