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Agent Running in the Field

A Novel

A Novel

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By John le Carré

By John le Carré

By John le Carré

By John le Carré

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By John le Carré

By John le Carré

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    About Agent Running in the Field

    “[Le Carré’s] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.” —New York Times Book Review

    A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre
     
    Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.

    Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

    About Agent Running in the Field

    A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré

    Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the new political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a very dangerous path. In his plot and characterization le Carré is as thrilling as ever and in the way he writes about our times he proves himself, once again, to be the greatest chronicler of our age.

    About Agent Running in the Field

    “[Le Carré’s] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.” —New York Times Book Review

    A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre
     
    Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.

    Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

    About Agent Running in the Field

    “[Le Carré’s] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.” —New York Times Book Review

    A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre
     
    Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.

    Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

    About Agent Running in the Field

    “[Le Carré’s] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.” —New York Times Book Review

    A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre
     
    Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.

    Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

    About Agent Running in the Field

    “[Le Carré’s] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.” —New York Times Book Review

    A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre
     
    Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.

    Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

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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

    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 | Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Aug 18, 2020 | 288 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781984878892

    Category: Espionage Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Large Print | $31.00
    Published by Random House Large Print
    Oct 22, 2019 | 400 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780593152188

    Category: Espionage Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Hardcover | $29.00
    Published by Viking
    Oct 22, 2019 | 288 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781984878878

    Category: Espionage Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Oct 22, 2019 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781984878885

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

    CD | $40.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Oct 22, 2019 | 570 Minutes | ISBN 9780593151907

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

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Oct 22, 2019 | 574 Minutes | ISBN 9780593151914

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    Praise

    “Superb writing, precise portraiture, clever tricks of tradecraft—all Mr. le Carré’s hallmarks are present in this swift, surprising, bittersweet story.”
    —The Wall Street Journal

    “So topical it arrives with the beeping urgency of a news alert.”
    —The Washington Post

    “A word about le Carré’s prose: Not only does it hold the coiled energy of a much younger writer, it fits the bitter, angry narrator’s voice exceptionally well.”
    —NPR.org

    “Le Carré is one of the best novelists—of any kind—we have.”
    —Vanity Fair

    “Le Carré remains a master at showing us what spies do, wily spiders to the unsuspecting flies they entrap.”
    —Booklist (starred)

    “Deeply pleasurable.”
    —Vogue

    “A tragicomic salute to both the recuperative powers of its has-been hero and the remarkable career of its nonpareil author.”
    —Kirkus 

    “John le Carré is the great master of the spy story. . . . The constant flow of emotion lifts him not only above all modern suspense novelists, but above most novelists now practicing.”
    —Financial Times

    “One of our great writers of moral ambiguity, a tireless explorer of that darkly contradictory no-man’s land.”
    —Los Angeles Times

    “No other writer has charted—pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers—the public and secret histories of his times.”
    —The Guardian (UK)

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