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The Secret Pilgrim
by le Carr, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g.), black boards, gold spine titling bright; text block and pages pristine.
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g.), black boards, gold spine titling bright; text block and pages pristine.. 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10"" x 6_""). The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this eighth Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers. 'Powerful ... Remarkable ... Magisterial' The New York Times
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131969
- Title
- The Secret Pilgrim
- Author
- le Carr, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (v.g.), black boards, gold spine titling bright; text block and pages pristine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 335
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, espionage, thriller, le Carr, pseudonym
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: royal (250 x 170 / 10\"\" x 6_\"\")
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