A Legacy of Spies

無可挑剔的諜報大師約翰．勒卡雷最新力作，久違的喬治．史邁利系列小說。冷戰時期的間諜行動，在多年後竟成了剝頭皮組長彼得．紀堯姆的過失，他和退休的組員們如何找證據為自己辯護？喬治．史邁利忠誠的門徒彼得．紀堯姆離開”圓場”(英國最高情報單位)後，遲暮之年在布列塔尼南部的海邊農場過著退休生活。一封來自圓場的信，將他召回倫敦，理由是他在冷戰時期參與的行動有重大瑕疵。想起當初的情報活動，簡直就是倫敦最精彩的一部分。當初的戰友阿列克．利馬斯、喬治．史邁利、吉姆．普里多，都被這一代沒有經歷過冷戰的情報人員以毫無耐心的方式訊問。 勒卡雷將過去作品《冷戰諜魂》與《諜影行動》與這本新作融合成一個全新且令人顫慄屏息的劇情，並且在情節中帶著作家具張力、幽默感與道德模糊的一貫風格，透過紀堯姆，我們再次看見了一群令人難忘的人物。The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book—his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carré and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new.