John Le Carré

"The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book -- his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years." 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...

"In SILVERVIEW, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years -- the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems...

Somewhere at the very highest levels of British Intelligence there stands a double agent, a "mole," implanted deep in its fabric, perhaps decades ago, by Moscow Centre. He can only be one of five men—brilliant, complicated men, proven in action, who have worked closely together through the years, respecting and depending on each other, despite the central imperative of their profession to trust no one.

Of these five, it is George Smiley, perhaps

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In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...

For over 50 years, New York Times best-selling author John le Carré has been the standard bearer for espionage novels. A classic Cold War spy story, The Looking Glass War transports audiences to Eastern Europe, where rumors abound that Russian missiles are being positioned along the German border. Desperate, and lacking the manpower to get to the truth, The Department enlists the aid of former radio operator Fred Leiser—sending

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New York Times best-selling author John le CarrE earned a reputation as a master of the spy thriller with works such as Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy. Le CarrE's first novel to feature the iconic character George Smiley, Call for the Dead follows the Circus agent as he interviews Samuel Fennan, an accused member of the Communist Party. Though Smiley finds no evidence against Fennan, the man is found dead the next day from an apparent suicide. Looking...

Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer both deliver exceptional performances as two people - he from England, she from Russia - caught up in a world of spies and politics, whose love could prove fatal to them both. When Katya, a beautiful Russian book editor attempts to send British publisher Barley Blair a manuscript written by "DANTE", a noted Soviet scientist, she unwittingly involves him in a world of international espionage. Having met Blair at...