Overview

It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used - sent to the Soviet Union to make contact. Katya, the Moscow intermediary, is beautiful, thoughtful, equally sceptical of all state ideology. Together, as the safe cliches of hostility disintegrate, they may represent the future - an idea that is anathema to the entrenched espionage professionals on both sides.

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'A classic le Carre.' -- The Sunday Times 'Beneath the masterly action pulses a brand new vein of terror ... le Carre has achieved clarity of line, splendour of pace.' -- The Mail on Sunday 'Afire and thought-provoking ... A treatise on our times.' -- TIME

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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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