Agent Running in the Field (First Edition)

Le Carré, John

ISBN 10: 1984878875 / ISBN 13: 9781984878878

Published by Viking, New York, 2019

About this Item

Viking, New York, 2019. First edition. First printing, with full number line to 1. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Quarter white cloth over light blue paper-covered boards; spine lettered in black. A tight, clean copy with publisher's original price ($29.00) intact on front jacket flap. 8vo. 281 pp. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A late-career espionage novel by John le Carré, centered on a veteran intelligence officer, renewed Russian activity, and the political tensions of Brexit-era Britain. Rear mysteries.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Agent Running in the Field (First Edition)
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1984878875
• ISBN 13: 9781984878878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 6W x 9H x 1D inches 6 inches width by 9 inches height by 1 inches depth
• Weight: 1.5 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

“[Le Carré’s] novels are so brilliant because they’re emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they’re novels.” —New York Times Book Review

A thrilling tale for our times from the undisputed master of the spy genre
 
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. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.

Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

About the Author

John le Carré was born in 1931. For six decades, he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a con man, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence (MI5&6). He published his debut novel, Call for the Dead, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley’s People. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, A Legacy of Spies, appeared in 2017. He died on December 12, 2020.