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Overview""The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled: story elides into story; flashback and flash-forward, reminiscence, analysis and prognosis are lucidly and elegantly controlled. Indeed, The Secret Pilgrim is, technically, Mr. le Carré's most magisterial accomplishment."" --The New York Times Book Review (1991) With his time in British intelligence drawing to a close, veteran spy ""Ned"" asks his colleague George Smiley to address his graduating class of trainee spies in Sarratt. Smiley's remarks on espionage in the wake of the Cold War serve as trigger and backdrop for a series of recollections and memories of Ned's many decades as a British spy. Both a reminiscence of times past and a meditation on the future, The Secret Pilgrim--published more than ten years after Smiley's People and little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall--is a mosaic that masterfully captures the complex and contradictory moral landscapes of Cold War intelligence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Le Carré , Simon VancePublisher: Dreamscape Media Imprint: Dreamscape Media ISBN: 9798874899172Publication Date: 03 September 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsIntriguing... magisterial... The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled... Lucidly and elegantly controlled. Author InformationJohn le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (1931-2020), was an English author of espionage novels. Eight of his novels made the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list between 1983 and 2017. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation as one of the greatest spy novelists in history. Numerous major motion pictures have been made from his novels, as well as several television series. After attending the universities at Berne and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service, serving briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. Being a member of MI6 when he wrote his first novel, Call for the Dead in 1961 in Hamburg, it necessitated the use of a nom de plume, by which he continued to be known. His writing earned him several honorary doctorate degrees and the Somerset Maugham Award, the Goethe Medal, and the Olof Palme Prize. Simon Vance is a critically acclaimed narrator who has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has received over fifty Earphones Awards. A twelve-time Audie Award winner and frequent finalist, he has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice, an AudioFile Best Voice, and the first Booklist Voice of Choice. A former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader in London, he currently lives in California, where he also pursues stage and television acting. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |