Retired spy Peter Guillam is called to London to face an investigation into covert operations he took part in decades before during the height of the Cold War. As he answers, avoids and deflects questions from a younger generation of intelligence officers, he and they rake over the details of events he has spent decades trying to forget. Where exactly is his old master and hero, George Smiley? Is Peter going to be made a scapegoat for the consequences of Operation Windfall? Did the end really justify the means all those years ago, and were the gains made in the Cold War battle against the Russians worth the lives sacrificed and the integrity compromised? As the present and past stories unfold side by side, John le Carre weaves a suspenseful tale of moral ambiguity.
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