A Legacy of Spies
by le Carr, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, silver spine titling, text block (slight forward lean), pages unmarked.
- ISBN 10
- 0241308542
- ISBN 13
- 9780241308547
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About This Item
London: Viking (Penguin Books), 2017. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, silver spine titling, text block (slight forward lean), pages unmarked.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). Vintage le Carr. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carr exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carr has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132539
- Title
- A Legacy of Spies
- Author
- le Carr, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j, black boards, silver spine titling, text block (slight forward lean), pages unmarked.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0241308542
- ISBN 13
- 9780241308547
- Publisher
- Viking (Penguin Books)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 265
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, espionage, thriller, le Carr, pseudonym
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.57 g
- Size
- 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10\"\" x 6_\"\")
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