The secret pilgrim / John Le Carre ; with an afterword by the author.
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TextSeries: Penguin modern classicsPublisher: London : Penguin, 2011Description: 409 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141196367 (paperback)Subject(s): Smiley, George, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Suspense fiction, English | Smiley, George (Fictitious character) | Smiley, George (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Secret service | Smiley, George (Fictitious character) | Spy stories, English | Secret service -- Great Britain -- Fiction | Terrorism -- Fiction | Great BritainGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. | Spy stories. | Fiction. | Spy stories. | Action and adventure fiction. | Action and adventure fiction. | Spy stories | Spy fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 823.914 LOC classification: PRSummary: Classic fiction. Ned is a retired intelligence officer, a young man who left the Royal Navy to serve his country as a loyal knight enlisted in a crusade to rid the world of the Soviet Antichrist. This naive approach is soon replaced by a more wary regard for those with whom he must consort. He discovers he is only a pawn to be maneuvered by his superiors in response to considerations of which he is often ignorant. Moreover, he develops a considerable facility in the art of interpersonal manipulation himself. Indeed, he finds himself in danger of losing his own humanity as he strives to combat the inhumane aspects of the system he has sworn to destroy. He wonders if those designated as his opponents are not in fact compatriots in a common struggle. In other words, the right people "lost" the Cold War and the wrong people won.
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First published: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991.
Classic fiction. Ned is a retired intelligence officer, a young man who left the Royal Navy to serve his country as a loyal knight enlisted in a crusade to rid the world of the Soviet Antichrist. This naive approach is soon replaced by a more wary regard for those with whom he must consort. He discovers he is only a pawn to be maneuvered by his superiors in response to considerations of which he is often ignorant. Moreover, he develops a considerable facility in the art of interpersonal manipulation himself. Indeed, he finds himself in danger of losing his own humanity as he strives to combat the inhumane aspects of the system he has sworn to destroy. He wonders if those designated as his opponents are not in fact compatriots in a common struggle. In other words, the right people "lost" the Cold War and the wrong people won.
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