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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394551419
ISBN-139780394551418
eBay Product ID (ePID)180073
Product Key Features
Book TitlePerfect Spy
Number of Pages479 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / Espionage
Publication Year1986
GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction
AuthorJohn Le Carré
Book SeriesGeorge Smiley Novels Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight30.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN85-045587
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal823.914
SynopsisJohn le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Immersing readers in two parallel dramas -- one about the making of a spy, the other chronicling his seemingly imminent demise -- le Carre offers one of his richest and most morally resonant novels. Magnus Pym -- son of Rick, father of Tom, and a successful career officer of British Intelligence -- has vanished, to the dismay of his friends, enemies, and wife. Who is he? Who was he? Who owns him? Who trained him? Secrets of state are at risk. As the truth about Pym gradually emerges, the reader joins Pym's pursuers to explore the unsettling life and motives of a man who fought the wars he inherited with the only weapons he knew, and so became a perfect spy.
After being in the spy business for twenty five (25) years and coordinating with several foreign intelligence services, I highly recommend this book and all the others written by Le Carre.