The Secret Pilgrim
by:
John le Carré (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...
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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. 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 final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394588421 (0394588428)
Publish date: December 25th 1990
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 335
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
Series: George Smiley (#8)
Another good audio adaption from the Smiley players. The story is more of a interlinked series of stories about the spy business and the question of morality. The Vietnam section while very powerful, is also somewhat predictable, and considering the treatment of women in certain professionals, als...
This is a collage of old tales an ageing spy tells his students before his retirement. Unfortunately the stories were told in the first person voice from a perspective I never connected with. Despite his best efforts, le Carré couldn’t make me care about Ned, not even when he was reminiscing with Sm...
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