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Now older and living in retirement on a farm in his native Brittany, Peter Guillam – who narrates the story in the first person – is summoned to MI6 headquarters to account for his actions during Operation Windfall, the espionage mission depicted in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
Sep 5, 2017 · A Legacy of Spies is virtuoso spy-writer John le Carré revisiting George Smiley and his Circus agency cohorts in a sequel to The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The main character this time, however, is Peter Guillam, the chief lieutenant to M16’s Sensei Wu, George Smiley.
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Sep 5, 2017 · 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.
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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 ...
Aug 8, 2017 · A pastiche of meddlesome characters with names like Bunny and Tabitha begin quizzing Guillam about wrongful deaths caused by lawless spies, and demanding that secret records be unearthed and ...
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.
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May 1, 2018 · 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.
