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Le Carre, John, Pseudonym for David John Moore Cornwell 1931-2020,

A legacy of spies / John Le Carré. - London, England Viking 2017. - 264 pages ; 24 cm. - Smiley ; 9 .

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.

ISBN: 9780241308554 0241308550 9780241308547 0241308542

Subjects--Meeting Names:
Cold War (1945-1989)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Smiley, George (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Intelligence service--Fiction.
Intelligence officers --Fiction.
Cold War--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Spy stories.

LC Class. No.: PR6062.E33 / L44 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92