Our Game - Softcover

John Le Carr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241243610 ISBN 13: 9780241243619

Publisher: Penquin/Random House, 2001

Synopsis

The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry dreamer dissolute philanderer and disloyal friend has vanished along with Tims mistress As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus he is forced to question everything he stood for Set in a fragmented uncertain postSoviet world le Carrs brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control

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From the Inside Flap:

At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in premature retirement to deepest rural England. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard, and his beautiful young mistress, Emma.
But no man can escape his past, and Tim's lives twenty miles away, in the chaotic person of Larry Pettifer: bored radical don, philanderer, and for twenty years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanquished Communist threat. Between the two stands an unresolved rivalry.
As the story opens, Larry and Emma have disappeared. Setting off in pursuit of them, Tim discovers that he too is being pursued, by his former masters. The hunter becomes the hunted. Raiding his own past like a thief, he follows Larry and Emma into the minefield -- physical and emotional -- of their new allegiance.
Our Game is John le Carre at his incomparable best.

About the Author:

John Le Carré was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Bern and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation. He divides his time between England and the Continent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penquin/Random House
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0241243610
• ISBN 13: 9780241243619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312