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Loading... A Legacy of Spies (2017)by John le Carré
   Books Read in 2018 (311) Finished in 2019 (2) No current Talk conversations about this book. George Smiley kom att bli sinnebilden för den tänkande spionchefen, som i klassiker som Spionen som kom in från kylan och Mullvaden jagade spioner och dubbelagenter i det kalla krigets osynliga fältslag. Nu är han, och flera av hans kumpaner, tillbaka. I Spionernas arv tvingas Smileys vän Peter Guillam återvända till de avgörande fall som skakade Smileys nätverk av spioner under det kalla krigets kyligaste dagar. Vad offrade de för den goda sakens skull?  CalleFriden | Feb 17, 2023 |  And the legacy of John le Carre. This was a sort of a wrap-up of the cold war era, about the fallout and damage to the abandoned children of spies, and to the institutions. I've read all of the author's books, or nearly all of them, and wanted to read what looks like a final one. Not satisfying at all as a spy story but revives some of the characters and fills in some of the organizational backstory. Peter Guillam as one of the last remaining cold war spies, is interrogated regarding the incidents involved with Spy Who Came In From the Cold, and the story is told in reports and interviews with a few flashbacks and in-person encounters with other people involved. Smiley is still alive but doesn't appear until the last few pages. I've changed my rating from three stars to two, since I was glad I've read it but won't recommend it to anyone who doesn't have a legacy of their own with these books. (  ) JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 | Really enjoyed this short novel that my wife got me for Christmas. I’ve never read John LeCarre before and I’m not sure I’ve even read a spy novel before unless a few James Bond novels that I read in my teenage years count. But I certainly enjoyed a few of the LeCarre movies and this book just brought back the characters and accents and locations to me. At first, I thought maybe I’d seen a movie of this book, but no, it hasn’t been filmed. From reading reviews, this book is sort of a prequel sequel to The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and I think I saw both of those, so I guess that’s why it all seemed so delightfully familiar. Probably in retrospect this wasn’t the -right- book to start on, but I think I may try some more LeCarre anyway. (  ) steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 | Stinker, Ailer, Blunder, Cry Review of the Penguin Books Canada paperback edition (2018) of the 2017 original hardcover I did not care for this revisionist version of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. (  ) alanteder | Dec 13, 2022 | It was very nice to have Peter and George and others back again, but this book felt unfinished. ( ) Jeffrey_G | Nov 22, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesGeorge Smiley (9)
"The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the 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, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carre has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back:The Spy Who Came in from the ColdandTinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carre and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new"-- No library descriptions found. |
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