Secret Pilgrim John le Carré

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780141196367
  • 26 mei 2011
  • 416 pagina's
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John le Carré

John le Carré, geboren in 1931, studeerde aan de universiteiten van Bern en Oxford. Tijdens de Koude Oorlog werkte hij enige tijd bij de Britse Inlichtingendienst. Hij schreef meer dan vijftig jaar romans die onze tijd karakteriseren, van zijn buitengewone romans over de Koude Oorlog tot zijn indrukwekkende schildering van de ‘War on Terror’.

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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.



The eighth of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance, The Secret Pilgrim is published in Penguin Modern Classics with an afterword by the author.

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 late Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.

If you enjoyed The Secret Pilgrim, you might like le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'Consummate and enthralling'
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26 mei 2011
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416
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John le Carré
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Le Carré, John
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Frederick Davidson

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199 mm
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  • Smiley's final appearance

    This wonderful book marks the end of George Smiley as a book character. John Le Carre (JLC) uses him cleverly as a prop to allow another lifelong spy called Ned to muse about his own lengthy spying career. Sarratt or the Nursery, where Service recruits are trained, is where GS has been invited to speak to the latest crop of graduates about e.g. being a spy, how it affects one’s personality and how the collapse of the Wall may change their ancient profession. Ned’s 13 case studies pass by chronologically, always preceded by a wise thought or stirring viewpoint by George Smiley made during his final appearance and public performance. The cases are exceptionally well written with JLC reaffirming his width of knowledge and depth of reading and psychological insight, and powers of empathy. Each lovely description is a gem, but two cases are especially searing, the Hansen case situated during the Vietnam War and the dramatic exposure of cipher clerk Cyril.
    This grand book’s brief final chapter contains the seeds of what has inspired John Le Carre since. It also deals with Ned’s final days in the Service when he is asked to put pressure on an arms dealer to stop dealing with shady clients in the Balkan, notably Serbia, and Central Africa. Prophetic in spy novel published in 1990, because the Balkans exploded in 1991 and Rwanda and Congo some years later… This book is elegantly composed, beautifully written, full of atmosphere and perfect characterizations, and stunning dialogues, interrogations and tradecraft. Great send off. Stunningly good read.

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