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A Perfect Spy

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By John le Carré

By John le Carré

By John le Carré

By John le Carré

By John le Carré
Read by Michael Jayston

By John le Carré
Read by Michael Jayston

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Paperback $18.00

Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780143119760

Ebook $12.99

Jul 20, 2011 | ISBN 9781101535455

Audiobook Download $30.00

Apr 12, 2012 | 1254 Minutes

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    About A Perfect Spy


    “The best English novel since the war.” — Philip Roth

    Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend—and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father’s death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad moustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus?
     
    In A Perfect Spy, John le Carré has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces, interweaving a moving and unusual coming-of-age story with a morally tangled chronicle of modern espionage.

    About A Perfect Spy


    “The best English novel since the war.” — Philip Roth

    Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend—and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father’s death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad moustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus?
     
    In A Perfect Spy, John le Carré has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces, interweaving a moving and unusual coming-of-age story with a morally tangled chronicle of modern espionage.

    About A Perfect Spy

    Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend—and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father’s death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad moustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus?
     
    In A Perfect Spy, John le Carré has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces, interweaving a moving and unusual coming-of-age story with a morally tangled chronicle of modern espionage.

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    About John le Carré

    JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found… More about John le Carré

    About John le Carré

    JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found… More about John le Carré

    About John le Carré

    JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found… More about John le Carré

    Product Details

    Category: Espionage Mysteries | Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 20, 2011 | 624 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780143119760

    Category: Espionage Mysteries | Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 20, 2011 | 624 Pages | ISBN 9781101535455

    Category: Espionage Mysteries | Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $30.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Apr 12, 2012 | 1254 Minutes | ISBN 9781101575697
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    Praise

    “Le Carré’s best book, and one of the finest English novels of the twentieth century.”—Philip Pullman

    “The best English novel since the war.”—Philip Roth

    “Brilliantly written.”—The Washington Post

    “Le Carré’s best book, one of the enduring peaks of imaginative literature in our time.”—Los Angeles Times

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