The Secret Pilgrim: A George Smiley Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Intriguing…Magisterial…The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled. Lucidly and elegantly controlled.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Illumines the spiritual condition of being a spy.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “Powerful…Remarkable…A grand summation of all John le Carré’s themes.”

  — New York Times

• “Le Carré is writing at the top of his form.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Wonderful…laced with lethal irony or occasional hope, with characters ranging from the heroic to the most banal form of evil. If John le Carré had to chose between his own espionage experience and his gifts as a writer, one strongly suspects he would bet on the latter.”

  — Boston Globe

• “No other contemporary novelist has more durably enjoyed the twin badges of being both well-read and well-regarded…The stories Ned recalls along the way are good ones, suspenseful, telling, each one cleverly recounted.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “They keep calling him a spy novelist, but of course he is much more; he is, indeed, one of the half-dozen best novelists now working in English…Here in The Secret Pilgrim are several old friends at twilight, telling tales to tomorrow morning’s fresh class…Anybody can write a novel. Nobody can write a le Carré novel.”

  — Chicago Sun-Times

• “Smiley is back!...Riveting…Marvelous.”

  — Philadelphia Inquirer

• “Powerful…A highly absorbing tale written with le Carré’s customary blend of deft characterization, scene-setting, and dialogue, not to mention a new-found affinity for humor.”

  — Newsday

• “Thrilling.”

  — Kansas City Star

• “Memorable…Strongly romantic…One finishes the book confident that le Carré will find new spies and that they will find new arenas in which to practice their deceptions.”

  — Newsweek

• “The Secret Pilgrim bridges a gap between the recent past and the unforeseeable future. No longer able, because of the innate honesty that has characterized his storytelling career, to offer a full-blown Cold War drama, le Carré pops out some discrete and satisfactory chilling ice cubes.”

  — Time

• “Scorching…Fascinating…Seductive…A dazzler.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Riveting…It’s not only one of the author’s best books, it’s one of the best books, period.”

  — Cosmopolitan

• “Near the end of his own career as a cold-war spy, the narrator invites his mentor, George Smiley, to address his students as they complete their spy training. Seeing Smiley again evokes for him a series of memories, some involving Smiley, all marvelously written vintage le Carré...Michael Jayston could not be better, giving a wry, elegant, wide-ranging performance that brings Smiley, Toby Esterhazy, and many other old friends from the Smiley novels back to vivid life.”

  — AudioFile