# A Legacy of Spies

**Chosen as a Book of the Year in _The Times Literary Supplement_, the _Evening Standard_, the _Daily Telegraph_, the _Guardian_, _The Times_**  
  
**'A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' _Evening Standard_**  
  
**'Vintage le Carré. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since _The Spy Who Came in from the Cold_ has le Carré exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, _Guardian_**

Peter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Service, has long retired to Brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to London. The reason? Cold War ghosts have come back to haunt him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of the Service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the Berlin Wall. Somebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater good . . .

'**Utterly engrossing** and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carré. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' _Daily Mail_

'**Splendid**, fast-paced, riveting' Andrew Marr, _Sunday Times_

'Remarkable. **Vintage John le Carré**. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carré's writing has got richer with age. **Don't wait for the paperback**' _The Times_

'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' Ian McEwan

'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris

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- **Vendor:** Penguin Books, Limited
- **Type:** John Le Carré

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