Name: A Legacy of Spies

Author: John le Carre
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Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

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9780735225114
0735225117		 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 Cold and Tinker 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.
This book is part of the "George Smiley" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"The Secret Pilgrim"
First published in 1990
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"The Looking Glass War"
First published in 1965
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"The Spy Who Came In from the Cold"
First published in 1963
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"A Murder of Quality"
First published in 1962
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"Call for the Dead"
First published in 1961
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