Viking Books has announced the publication
of a new novel by John le Carré.
Due to be published on September 7, 2017, A Legacy of Spies is the first
novel in over 25 years to feature George Smiley, le Carré’s most beloved
character. 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 scrutinised
under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no
patience with its justifications.
Interweaving past with present so that each may tell
its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and
thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came
in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
A Legacy of Spies will be
published by Penguin Random House.
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