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Background. A Legacy of Spies is both a prequel and sequel to John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. In that book, MI6 agent Alec Leamas, motivated by the death of his operative Karl Riemeck in East Berlin, agrees to undertake one final mission to get revenge on the man he believes to be Riemeck's murderer, a high-ranking member of ...
Sep 10, 2017 · Robert McCrum. Sun 10 Sep 2017 02.00 EDT. O ld age marks a rendezvous with reality that provokes timeless questions. At the end of John le Carré’s new novel, his greatest creation, George Smiley,...
Aug 28, 2017 · George Smiley and Other Old Friends Return in John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’. John le Carré ’s new novel is a throwback, a coda to “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” (1963 ...
Sep 5, 2017 · Peter Guillam, a former agent of the British Secret Service, is summoned to London to face his Cold War past. The novel interweaves past and present stories of spies, betrayal and moral ambiguity, inspired by le Carré's classics The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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Sep 7, 2017 · A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré review – Smiley returns in a breathtaking thriller. Vintage Le Carré as he ingeniously closes the circle of his long career. John Banville. Thu 7 Sep 2017...
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About A Legacy of Spies #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years–a #1 New York Times bestseller and ideal holiday gift.
Aug 8, 2017 · Le Carré has found a clever solution to this problem in A Legacy of Spies. He has written a kind of prequel to the book that made him famous, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. And he has...
