A Perfect Spy
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:27th Sep '18
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Considered a masterpiece of the genre, le Carre's preeminent spy novel is new to Penguin Modern Classics.
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth
Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own.
Described by le Carré as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is.
'Le Carré understood that espionage is an extreme version of the human comedy, even the human tragedy. A Perfect Spy will very likely remain his greatest book' New Yorker
One of the finest English novels of the twentieth century -- Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9780241322482
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 28mm
Weight: 461g
672 pages