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Nov 09, 2021 | ISBN 9780593554739 Pre-Order
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Nov 09, 2021 | 600 Minutes Pre-Order
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Nov 09, 2021 | ISBN 9780593554739
Oct 12, 2021 | ISBN 9780593490594
Oct 12, 2021 | ISBN 9780593490600
Nov 09, 2021 | ISBN 9780593453599
600 Minutes
Oct 12, 2021 | ISBN 9780593453605
In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years—the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
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
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