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Synopsis
The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. He illuminates the brave past and even braver present of George Smiley, his hero and mentor, who gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him - and the world - for thirty years ...
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'John le Carré has created a fictive world which he has made almost as familiar as that of Dickens ... in terms of scope, skill and ideas, it is streets ahead of most contemporary fiction.' (The Daily Telegraph)
'Powerful ... remarkable ... a grand summation of all John le Carré’s themes.' (The New York Times)
'Le Carré ... at the top of his form.' (Los Angeles Times)
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'Le Carré writing at his exceptional best'
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0340750375
- ISBN 13 9780340750377
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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