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A legacy of spies
- Title
- A legacy of spies / John le Carré.
- Author
- Le Carré, John, 1931-2020
- Publication
- New York, New York : Viking, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-9838 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 264 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years 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 scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carre has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back:The Spy Who Came in from the ColdandTinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carre and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Spy fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9838
- ISBN
- 9780735225114
- 0735225117
- LCCN
- 2017032695
- OCLC
- 2017032695
- Author
- Le Carré, John, 1931-2020, author.
- Title
- A legacy of spies / John le Carré.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Viking, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Le Carré, John, 1931- author. Legacy of spies New York, New York : Viking, [2017] 9780735225121 (DLC) 2017039299
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9838