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"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE AND NEVER LETS GO." --Chicago Sun-Times With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left.... "IRRESISTIBLE...A sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against him." --Time "AS THRILLING AS LE CARRÉ GETS...The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spy and some of the outraged honor of The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl." --The Boston Globe "GRIPPING." --The Christian Science Monitor A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK From Publishers Weekly Le Carre's latest-which revolves around a breakaway attempt by Chechnya and a former British agent's attempt to track down his double-crossing old protege-was a PW bestseller for 13 weeks. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal YA?Another tautly written, well-researched spy novel from LeCarre. The Cold War is over. The Russians are our friends. Consequently, spy handler Tim "Timbo" Cranmer and his specially groomed double agent, Larry Pettifer, are put out to pasture. Tim, a somewhat stolid and unimaginative civil-servant type, has removed himself and his much younger mistress, Emma, to his late uncle's vineyard in Somerset, while the idealistic Larry is uncomfortably ensconced as a professor at Bath University. Then Larry and Emma disappear. They have apparently run off together. They have also apparently relieved the Russians of more than 30 million pounds. The British police, guessing at Tim's previous occupation, and the Russians, knowing it, suspect Tim's active participation in, or at least knowledge of, the scheme. All parties concerned attempt to force him to reveal the whereabouts of the fugitives, which he honestly does not know. He does, however, still possess some of the skills of his former profession, and in a suspenseful journey through England, France, and finally Russia, he tracks down his friends while eluding his followers. In the process, readers learn much about the dissident Russian regions and some pre-and post-Stalinist history. An engrossing, exciting spy story.?Susan H. Woodcock, King's Park Library, Burke, VA Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

at Forty-eight, Tim Cranmer Is A Secret Servant In Premature Retirement To Deepest Rural England. His Cold War Is Fought And Won, And He Is Free To Devote Himself To His Stately Manor House, His Vineyard, And His Beautiful Young Mistress, Emma.

but No Man Can Escape His Past, And Tim's Lives Twenty Miles Away, In The Chaotic Person Of Larry Pettifer: Bored Radical Don, Philanderer, And For Twenty Years Tim's Mercurial Double Agent Against The Now Vanquished Communist Threat. Between The Two Stands An Unresolved Rivalry.

as The Story Opens, Larry And Emma Have Disappeared. Setting Off In Pursuit Of Them, Tim Discovers That He Too Is Being Pursued, By His Former Masters. The Hunter Becomes The Hunted. Raiding His Own Past Like A Thief, He Follows Larry And Emma Into The Minefield — Physical And Emotional — Of Their New Allegiance.

our Game Is John Le Carre At His Incomparable Best.

publishers Weekly

le Carr Continues To Stay Ahead Of The News, And His Latest Novel Set In The Post-soviet World Is Smashingly Up-to-date, Involving Nothing Less Than A Desperate Breakaway Attempt By Chechnya And The Murky International Dealings That Accompany It. His Narrator Is Tim Cranmer, Former Secret Agent Turned Winemaker In Rural Somerset. Tim's Great Espionage Success Was The Recruiting Of Brilliant Gadfly Larry Pettifer, Who Ended Up Not Only Stealing Tim's Beautiful Mistress, The Enigmatic Emma, But Also Disappearing, Apparently With A Fortune Lifted From Russian Banks To Aid The Rebels Through Shady Arms Deals. Now The Police Are Looking For Larry, The ``office'' Is Convinced Cranmer Must Be In On His Schemes, And, Using All His Old Spycraft, He Sets Out To Find Larry And Emma. To Warn Them? To Win Emma Back? To Find Out What Really Happened? To Redeem What He Increasingly Sees As His Own Shabby, Evasive Life? The Author Creates A Brilliantly Complex Character In Tim Cranmer; But Such Is His Skill As A Narrator-as Always, Le Carr's Dialogue And Scene-setting Are Incomparable-that It Is Impossible Not To Empathize Strongly With Him, And As A Result To Feel Profound Ambivalence About Emma And Larry And Their Many Betrayals. The Surprising And Bitter Ending Seems To Resolve Nothing, Leaving Only A Harsh Taste Of The Western Betrayal Of Ideals Of Freedom. Le Carr Is Moving Into Much Tougher Territory Than His Old Smooth, Sophisticated Spy Yarns, And Readers Must Become Accustomed To Increasing Ambiguities. Our Game Entirely Lacks The Dazzling Action Sequences And Intricate Plotting Of The Night Manager, But It Cuts Even More Deeply Into The Dour Contemporary World. 350,000 First Printing; Bomc Main Selection; Random House Audio Book. (mar.)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer’s star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left. . . . Praise for Our Game“As thrilling as le Carré gets . . . The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spy and some of the outraged honor of The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl.”—The Boston Globe “Furious in action . . . takes us by the neck on page one and never lets go.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Irresistible . . . a sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against him.”—Time “Gripping.”—The Christian Science Monitor LARRY WENT OFFICIALLY missing from the world on the second Monday of October, at ten minutes past eleven, when he failed to deliver his opening lecture of the new academic year.