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John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s A Legacy of Spies<\/em><\/a> will be published in September 2017, his first novel in over twenty-five years to feature George Smiley. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him.<\/span><\/p>\n 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 scrutinised under disturbing criteria by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications.<\/span><\/p>\n Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carr\u00e9 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 Cold <\/em><\/a>and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<\/em>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Did you know?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n For more than fifty years\u00a0John le Carr\u00e9\u00a0has written novels that have come to define our age, from his extraordinary Cold War novels – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold<\/em>, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley\u2019s People, <\/em>to name just three – <\/em>to his powerful descriptions of the War on Terror in A Most Wanted Man <\/em>and his most recent novel, A Delicate Truth<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BLOG-JOHN.jpg\")
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