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      The Secret Pilgrim

      by John Le Carre
      Published
      Jan 1991
      Main Genre
      Suspense Suspense
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      George Smiley Book 8

      About This Book

      The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries
       
      The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable. 
       
      To train new spies for this uncertain future, one must show them the past. Enter the man called Ned, the loyal and shrewd veteran of the Circus. With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East—an electrifying, clandestine tour of honorable old knights and notorious traitors, triumph and failure, passion and hate, suspicion, sudden death, and old secrets that haunt us still.
       
      Praise for The Secret Pilgrim
       
      "Intriguing . . . magisterial . . . The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled. . . . Lucidly and elegantly controlled."—The New York Times Book Review
       
      "Scorching . . . fascinating . . . seductive . . . a dazzler."—Entertainment Weekly
       
      "Powerful . . . a highly absorbing tale."—Newsday
       
      "Extraordinary."—USA Today

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      Book 8
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      Genres & Themes

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      General Fiction Suspense

      Subgenres

      Action Adventure Espionage / Spies / CIA Thriller

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