'A Legacy of Spies' reminds readers why they have loved John le Carré so well and so long
Sep 14, 2017
3 minutes
Book world marketing being what it is, John le Carré's new novel is inevitably being taglined as “the return of George Smiley!” – shorthanding that le Carré's great signature character, the Sphinx-like spymaster at the heart of the spiderweb of the British Secret Service, nicknamed “the Circus,” is appearing in a le Carré novel for the first time in more than a quarter of a century. And taglines being what they are, this might work to sell the book but also works to sell
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