Summer book reviews
Dec 06, 2019
4 minutes
by Mark Laurie of South Seas Books, Port Elliot
Agent Running in the Field
by John le Carré
Published by Viking (Penguin Books)
ISBN 9780241401217
$32.99
The master storyteller brings his finely developed clandestine world into the age of Brexit, climate change, Putin and Trump, its protagonists weaving their duplicitous craft within the divisions, contradictions and uncertainties of the current age. Reprieved from expected redundancy, veteran spy Nat is tasked with transforming a small, sidelined spy centre in London to run an unprepossessing assortment of Russian agents. At the same time, his long-established badminton supremacy at the local club is challenged by Ed, an ill-at-ease and introspective man half his age given to
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