Agent Running in the Field

Author(s): John Le Carre

Crime Fiction & Thrillers

The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new thriller.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.


 

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John Le Carre's wonderful new novel, his twenty fifth in a storied writing career spanning six decades, is another vivid exploration of the world we live in. With Europe in a Brexit-based crisis and America and Russia ruled by strongmen, Running in the Field  brilliantly illuminates these troubled, angry times. The writing is taut, the plot labyrinthine, the characters nuanced and I devoured it in a sitting. GAVIN 

 

 


 

 


 

General Fields

  • : 9780241401217
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Random House UK
  • : 0.38
  • : December 2018
  • : 2.1 Centimeters X 15.7 Centimeters X 23.5 Centimeters
  • : March 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Le Carre
  • : Paperback
  • : 1910
  • : 823.914
  • : very good
  • : 281