A legacy of spies / John Le Carre.
Series: George Smiley. 9 | Le Carré, John, George Smiley ; book 9.Publication details: London : Penguin Random House UK, 2017.Description: 264 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 0241308550
- 9780241308554
- 0241308542
- 9780241308547
- Intelligence officers; England; Fiction
- Cold War
- Intelligence officers -- Fiction
- Intelligence service -- Fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Spy stories
- FastBack collection
- Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Intelligence officers -- England -- Fiction
- Smiley, George (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Cold War -- Fiction
- Secret service -- Great Britain -- Fiction
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Adventure | LEC | Smiley Bk.9 | Available | 066789 |
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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.