The Secret Pilgrim (The Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection) - Hardcover

Le Carré, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241337186 ISBN 13: 9780241337189

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2020

Synopsis

The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.

About this title

Review:

Le Carré writing at his exceptional best (Mail on Sunday)

Consummate and enthralling (Observer)

About the Author:

John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0241337186
• ISBN 13: 9780241337189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416