A Perfect Spy

In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by it's inhabitants, Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxi-cab and, having paid the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church square. "He is Magnus Pym, charming, enigmatic, a star player in 'The Great Game' of British intelligence. He is a man of spectacjular gifts whose sudden, mysterious disappearance devastates his family, friends and colleagues, while shattering the fragile foundations of covert spy networks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. John le Carré's brilliant new masterwork explores the very essence of espionage itself, inerweaving the gripping story of a desperate international manhunt with the compelling history of a complex and tortured life. Here is a stunning tale of obligation and betrayal ... and of the irresistible forces that cruelly play on the human flaws of a perfect spy." When British intelligence agent Magnus Pym disappears, two desperate searches are initiated--the hunt of agents, East and West, for the missing spy and Pym's own quest to uncover the mysteries of his own past