Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has...

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to...

In John le Carre's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial...

An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his...

As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter...

Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the...

Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew...

Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama

The Cold War is over and retired secret...

John le Carre's first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary...

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the...

When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West...

After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus...