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The Secret Pilgrim is a 1990 episodic novel by British writer John le Carré, set within the frame narrative of an informal dinner talk given at the spy-training school in Sarratt by George Smiley. As Smiley talks, the first-person narrator, whom readers know only as "Ned", recalls his own experiences in a long career in the service.
- John Le Carré
- 1990
Dec 25, 1990 · In The Secret Pilgrim, Ned is the pilgrim who has wrestled with the faith necessary in his particular line of work. After a full career with the Secret Intelligence Service (aka the "Circus"), Ned has been shunted off to the Sarratt / "Nursery" because those who can, do; those who can't, teach.
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- Paperback
Aug 22, 2020 · The secret pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, and he has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. He is now approaching the end of his career, and is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years.
Apr 29, 2008 · by John le Carré (Author) 4.5 3,937 ratings. Book 8 of 9: George Smiley Novels. See all formats and editions. The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries.
- John Le Carré
- $15.99
- Ballantine Books
Aug 15, 2017 · The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries. The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika.
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- John le Carré
With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East—an electrifying, clandestine tour of honorable old knights and notorious traitors, triumph and failure, passion and hate, suspicion, sudden death, and old secrets that haunt us...
Feb 1, 1992 · The Secret Pilgrim is le Carre's 11th entry into the spy/espionage genre. It is a collection of short stories chronologically following some of the career high/low(?) points of an associate of George Smiley's, Ned, who Smiley mentored since Ned was a young, unworldly recruit.
- Mass Market Paperback
- John Le Carre
