Summary
John Le Carre: Agent in the Field
Nett, a forty-seven-year veteran of British intelligence, believes his career as a controller of agents is over. He returns to London with his wife Prue. But with a new threat from Moscow Center, the Service has another job for him. Nate will take over Sanctuary, a failed division of the London headquarters, made up of rather useless spies. The team's only bright spot is young Florence, who has her eye on the Ministry of Russia and a Ukrainian oligarch who dips his fingers into Russian jam.
Net is not only a spy, he is also an avid badminton player. His partner in the regular match on Mondays is half his age - the pensive and withdrawn Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some impersonal news agency. And it was Ed, from whom it was least expected, who led Prue, Florence and Nate on a path of political anger that would ensnare them all. The twenty-fifth novel of the legendary John le Carre, "Agent in the Field", is an exciting depiction of our times, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes black-humored, which is narrated to us with supreme tension by the greatest chronicler of the age we live in.
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