{"product_id":"a-legacy-of-spies","title":"A Legacy of Spies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChosen as a Book of the Year in \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Vintage le Carré. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e has le Carré exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eUtterly engrossing\u003c\/b\u003e and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carré. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSplendid\u003c\/b\u003e, fast-paced, riveting' Andrew Marr, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Remarkable. \u003cb\u003eVintage John le Carré\u003c\/b\u003e. 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. \u003cb\u003eDon't wait for the paperback\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' Ian McEwan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54862239760727,"sku":"9780241981610","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/3529643482274.jpg?v=1788380625","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/a-legacy-of-spies","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}