The Secret Pilgrim

The Secret Pilgrim

by JohnleCarré (Author)

Synopsis

The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence -- the Circus -- all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of the legendary George Smiley, his hero and mentor who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years ...

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 21 Sep 2006

ISBN 10: 034093767X
ISBN 13: 9780340937679

Media Reviews
'Le Carre writing at his exceptional best' -- Mail on Sunday 'John le Carre has created a fictive world which he has made almost as familiar as that of Dickens ... in terms of scope, skill and ideas, it is streets ahead of most contemporary fiction' -- Daily Telegraph 'This consummate and enthralling mosaic is also Smiley's nunc dimittis' -- Observer
Author Bio
John le Carre was born in 1931 and was educated at the universities of Bern and Oxford. He has written nineteen highly-acclaimed novels. John le Carre lives in Cornwall.