A legacy of spies
By: John Le Carré
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780525501305
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Intelligence service; Fiction; Cold War; Intelligence officers
Other titles: a novel
Description: 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 of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinised under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications.