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The Secret Pilgrim is a 1990 episodic novel by British writer John le Carré, set within the frame narrative of an informal dinner talk given at the spy-training school in Sarratt by George Smiley. As Smiley talks, the first-person narrator, whom readers know only as "Ned", recalls his own experiences in a long career in the service.
Dec 25, 1990 · ‘The Secret Pilgrim’ comprises the reminiscences of a British spy called Ned, who is looking back on his 30 years as a member of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service.
Apr 29, 2008 · Praise for The Secret Pilgrim “Intriguing . . . magisterial . . . The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled. . . . Lucidly and elegantly controlled.” — The New York Times Book Review “Scorching . . . fascinating . . . seductive . . . a dazzler.”
Aug 22, 2020 · The secret pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, and he has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. He is now approaching the end of his career, and is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years.
The eighth of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim is a gripping feat of narrative brilliance. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy.
With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East—an electrifying, clandestine tour of honorable old knights and notorious traitors, triumph and failure, passion and hate, suspicion, sudden death, and old secrets that haunt us...
Synopsis. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear.
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Dec 25, 1990 · This approach has made clear both that the be novel is a most worthy entry into the Smiley-related canon and that The Secret Pilgrim was a remarkably prescient look at post-Cold War geopolitical trends.
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THE SECRET PILGRIM. By John le Carré. his fine novel takes the form of a reverie-memoir, a series of reflections on a long life in the espionage business recalled by a surnameless...
