A legacy of spies /
Le Carré, John, 1931-
A legacy of spies / Subtitle from cover : a novel John Le Carré. - First large print edition. - 385 pages (large print) ; 24 cm -
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. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. 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 under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications.
9780525501305 0525501304
Smiley, George (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Intelligence service--Great Britain--Fiction.
Intelligence officers--England--Fiction.
Cold War--Fiction.
Spy fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Large type books.
A legacy of spies / Subtitle from cover : a novel John Le Carré. - First large print edition. - 385 pages (large print) ; 24 cm -
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. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. 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 under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications.
9780525501305 0525501304
Smiley, George (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Intelligence service--Great Britain--Fiction.
Intelligence officers--England--Fiction.
Cold War--Fiction.
Spy fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Large type books.