01885cam a2200277 i 4500 BJBSDDR 20231006151520.0 ta 170815s2017 nyu 000 1 eng 9780735225114 (hardcover) spa DLC eng PR 6062 L456l 2017 823 FIC006000 FIC030000 bisacsh Le Carré, John, 1931- A legacy of spies / John le Carré. New York, New York : Viking, 2017. 264 p. ; 24 cm. "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 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 scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carre has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back:The Spy Who Came in from the ColdandTinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carre and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new"-- Provided by publisher. Novela policíaca 5433 Novela inglesa 1933 Espionaje 582 Novela lcc BK lmm 84632 84632 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 PR 6062 L456l 2017 00000120483 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK