A bleak, gripping portrait of espionage and illusion
Vintage book in Fair Condition - heavy cover rubbing and creasing with spine wear, page tanning and spotting. Pan edition published 1966.
A fading British intelligence department seizes on fragmentary evidence of missiles in East Germany and launches an operation to restore its former importance. An inadequately prepared agent is sent across the border while officials in London cling to procedure, rivalry and wishful thinking. John le Carré strips away the romance of espionage in a tense, darkly ironic novel about institutional vanity, obsolete loyalties and the human cost of self-deception.
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