The Secret Pilgrim ( George Smiley #8 )

Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark staging grounds of the Cold War--whose shadows barely obscure the endless games of espionage--are flooded with light. The rules are rewritten, the stakes changed and the future unfathomable.Ned has worked for the British Intelligence all of his life--a loyal, shrewd officer of the Cold War. Now approaching the end of his career, he revisits his own past. He invites us on a tour of three decades in the Circus, burrowing deep in the world of spies from every corner of the globe."Le Carre is simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster!" Newsweek The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside . . . John le Carre has seized this impossible turning point in history to give the most visceral experience yet of the brilliant and base, delicate and brutal world of spydom. Review Powerful....Remarkable....A grand summation of all John le Carre's themes. --New York Times Intriguing....Magisterial....The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled. Lucidly and elegantly controlled. --New York Times Book Review Le Carre is writing at the top of his form. --Los Angeles Times From the Publisher 9 1.5-hour cassettes