Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

Author:   John le Carré ,  John le Carré
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Edition:   Unabridged edition
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9780241402931


Pages:   1
Publication Date:   17 October 2019
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new thriller. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age- the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

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Author:   John le Carré ,  John le Carré
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Viking
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 14.20cm
Weight:   0.241kg
ISBN:  

9780241402931


ISBN 10:   024140293
Pages:   1
Publication Date:   17 October 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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'John le Carre is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times * Financial Times * A literary master for a generation * Observer * One of those writers who will be read a century from now No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times * Guardian * Blisteringly contemporary . . . Each new book from le Carre is refreshingly different and uniquely compelling * Economist *


Le Carre has always known how to make his readers hang on barbed-wire tenterhooks. He drip-feeds information with such suspense-building miserliness that our befogged state matches that of the field agents - the joes - who glimpse one piece of the secret jigsaw at a time * Financial Times * A literary master for a generation * Observer * One of those writers who will be read a century from now -- Robert Harris No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times * Guardian *


'John le Carre is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times * Financial Times * A literary master for a generation * Observer * One of those writers who will be read a century from now -- Robert Harris No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times * Guardian *


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John le Carre was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carre widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on 12 December 2020. His posthumous novel Silverview was published in 2021.

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