The tailor of panama - John Le Carr

'A work of rare brilliance' The Times

Charmer, fabulist
and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell
stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large
appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks into his
shop, Harry's fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soon
he finds himself out of his depth in an international game he can never
hope to win.


Le Carr's savage satire on the espionage trade
is set in a corrupt universe without heroes or honour, where the
innocent are collateral damage and treachery plays out as tragic farce.

'A tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated' The New York Times Book Review