u003cbu003e#1 u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BESTSELLERu003cbru003e u003cbru003e The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years--a #1 u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e bestseller and ideal holiday gift.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 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.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: u003ciu003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Coldu003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eTinker Tailor Soldier Spyu003c/iu003e. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carré and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new.
