# Silverview - Paperback

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by **John Le Carré** (Author)

****An instant _New York Times_ bestseller!****

In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself.

"\[Le Carré\] was often considered one of the finest novelists, period, since World War II. It's not that he 'transcended the genre, ' as the tired saying goes; it's that he elevated the level of play... \[_Silverview_'s\] sense of moral ambivalence remains exquisitely calibrated." --_The New York Times Book Review_

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.

When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . .

_Silverview_ is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.

### Author Biography

JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence, in MI5 and MI6. He published his debut novel, _Call for the Dead_, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, _The Spy Who Came in from the Cold_, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy_, and _Smiley's People_. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, _The Pigeon Tunnel_, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, _A Legacy of Spies_, appeared in 2017. _Silverview_ is his twenty-sixth novel. John le Carré died on December 12, 2020.

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN

**Publication Date:** July 05, 2022

## Details

- **Price:** 24.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Action & Adventure, Books, Espionage, Fiction, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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