Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel Audiobook

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• In Karla's Choice, Nick Harkaway has done the impossible and made it look easy. He's written a new George Smiley novel that reads like a long lost le Carré classic. It's a story as gripping as a hand on the throat, a subtle, blood-chilling work of suspense that promises to both enthrall the le Carré faithful and captivate a whole new generation of readers. I was floored.

  — Joe Hill, author of The Fireman and Horns

• Karla’s Choice is a note-perfect tribute to le Carré. Nick Harkaway has pulled off the remarkable trick of providing the long-term reader with something which is satisfyingly fresh and new, and yet fits seamlessly into the world of Smiley’s Circus in its heyday.

  — Mick Herron

• In Karla's Choice, Nick Harkaway has done the impossible and made it look easy. He's written a new George Smiley novel that reads like a long lost le Carré classic. It's a story as gripping as a hand on the throat, a subtle, blood-chilling work of suspense that promises to both enthrall the le Carré faithful and captivate a whole new generation of readers. I was floored.

  — Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Horns

• Karla’s Choice is a note-perfect tribute to le Carré. Nick Harkaway has pulled off the remarkable trick of providing the long-term reader with something which is satisfyingly fresh and new, and yet fits seamlessly into the world of Smiley’s Circus in its heyday.

  — Mick Herron

• George Smiley returns in this terrific spy saga from John Le Carré’s son, Titanium Noir author Nicholas Cornwell (writing under the Harkaway pseudonym) . . . Longtime Smiley fans will delight in the enormous cast of familiar characters, the thoughtful meditations on the morality of espionage, and the lived-in tradecraft. [In Karla’s Choice,] Harkaway brilliantly channels his late father’s voice, and in the process delivers an essential new chapter for Smiley and Karla.

  — Publishers Weekly, starred review

• Karla’s Choice is a note-perfect tribute to le Carré. Nick Harkaway has pulled off the remarkable trick of providing the long-term reader with something which is satisfyingly fresh and new, and yet fits seamlessly into the world of Smiley’s Circus in its heyday.

  — Mick Herron

• Honestly reads like a lost le Carrè. Smiley is back at the Circus in the safest of hands.

  — Richard Osman, New York Times bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club

• Le Carre’s legacy is in good hands—Smiley is back with a vengeance!

  — Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series

• The best intelligence work is slow, and ‘spying is waiting.’ [Karla’s Choice] proceeds at a pace to match as it immerses the reader in a world of dread and drear, ‘shadows and sorrows’. . . A Cold War yarn befitting the world of le Carré.

  — Kirkus Review

• Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024 by the Washington Post, the Guardian, LitHub, Crime Reads, Boston Globe, and AARP

• Le Carre’s legacy is in good hands—Smiley is back with a vengeance!

  — Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series

• A welcome return to Le Carré’s world. Tense and atmospheric, meditative and moving. The familiar elements of le Carré’s prose are present, but the novel is also enriched by Nick Harkaway’s dry wit and sense of humour, and the slightly off-kilter way he has of viewing and describing the absurdities of our world. Fans of le Carré will have much to rejoice about, but so will fans of Nick Harkaway. 'The Legend Returns’' but under Harkaway’s pen, it’s safe to also say that 'A new legend begins.'

  — Tan Twan Eng, author of The House of Doors"I’m glad to see that the le Carré touch for taut writing and twisted plots lives on. It’s thrilling to be back with old friends and enemies. In the end, Nick Harkaway invests his father’s world with hard-earned insights into family connections, and what they cost. I think Smiley’s tested, essential goodness sings through the pages. I couldn’t put it down.

• The legendary Smiley’s return is a classic thinking person’s espionage thriller packed with more secrets, tricks and deceptions than a roomful of triple agents. We have witnessed the rebirth of an icon.

  — Scott Mariani, author of The Tudor Conspiracy

• Smiley and his people are back, and thank god for that. Karla's Choice is a beautifully rendered spy story full of familiar characters and authentic Cold War tradecraft. It's the missing chapter of Smiley's battle with Karla that we've always wanted, and Harkaway delivers.

  — David Mccloskey, author of The Damascus Station"Karla’s Choice is a glorious conjuration of a lost era. It’s a book as rich and complex as its cast of characters. But it’s also a feat of extraordinary literary alchemy. Harkaway has summoned Smiley, his colleagues, antagonists, and the dark moral machinations of their secret Cold War institutions back into existence with all the deft emotional precision of the best of Le Carré, but in so doing he has given us something wondrously new: a giddying, compulsively fierce novel that is very much his own. I read it twice in as many days and am about to pick it up and read it again.

• The best intelligence work is slow, and 'spying is waiting.' [Karla’s Choice] proceeds at a pace to match as it immerses the reader in a world of dread and drear, 'shadows and sorrows'. . . A Cold War yarn befitting the world of le Carré.

  — Kirkus Review