For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carré returns to the Cold War in this bestselling masterpiece. Peter Guillam, colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. His Cold War past has come back to claim him. A Sunday Times bestseller.