The secret pilgrim - John Le Carr

THE EIGHTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL

The Cold War is
over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy.
He asks his old
mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no
laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the
students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful
triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the
Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He
asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will
happen to us now?

In this eighth Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.

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