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With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappears, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protege, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left ...

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'A wonderful book, absolutely in tune with the le Carre canon. I cannot think of a more compelling read.' -- The Financial Times 'Furious in action ... takes us by the neck on page one and never lets go.' -- Chicago Sun-Times 'This isn't our game - it's uniquely his game ... Still nobody does it better.' -- The Mail on Sunday 'As thrilling as le Carre gets ... the novel has the heart-stop duplicity of A Perfect Spy and some of the outraged honour of The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl.' -- The Boston Globe

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John le Carre is the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset, and was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne. He taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was a Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961, and since then has published 21 titles. Michael Jayston is an English actor born in 1935. He has appeared in film and on television in many Shakespearian roles, as well as in Doctor Who, EastEnders and the televised serial Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He is the narrator for all of John le Carre's audiobook novels and was awarded an Earphones Award for his talent recording The Constant Gardener by le Carre.

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