THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Le Carre delivers a tale for our times . . .

a demonstration of the British spy thriller at its unputdownable best' Robert McCrum, Observer. 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.