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A Perfect Spy

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'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth

Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own.

Described by le Carré as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is.

'Le Carré understood that espionage is an extreme version of the human comedy, even the human tragedy. A Perfect Spy will very likely remain his greatest book' New Yorker

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780241337301
Publication date: 6th February 2020
Author: John Le Carré
Publisher: Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 659 pages
Series: The Penguin John Le Carré Hardback Collection
Genres: Espionage and spy thriller
Narrative theme: Interior life