After the Berlin Wall comes down and opens up new
changes in Eastern Europe, John le Carre's stunning novel, The Secret Pilgrim, takes us behind the scenes into the former Cold War
world.
Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace. The dark
staging grounds of the Cold War, whose shadows barely obscured the endless
games of espionage, are flooded with light; the rules are rewritten, the stakes
changed, the future unfathomable. John le Carre seized this momentous turning
point in history to give us the most disturbing experience we have yet had of
the frail and brutal world of spydom.
The man called Ned speaks to us. All his adult life he
has been in British Intelligence - the Circus - a loyal, shrewd, wily officer
of the Cold War. Now, approaching the end of his career, he revisits his own
past. He invites us on a tour of his three decades in the Circus, burrowing
deep into the twilight world where he ran spies - 'joes' - from Poland,
Estonia, Hungary.
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