Author: johnlecarre

A New York Times bestseller from the master of spy fiction: After a mole is expelled from the British Secret Service, intelligence officer George Smiley dispatches an operative to learn what the Russians are hiding. “Not a page of this book is without intelligence and grace” ().

Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carre’s new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya’s Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa’s much older husband, Justin, a career … diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le…