




The Secret Pilgrim
1991
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré. First US edition. First printing. Flat signed by le Carré to blank endpage. No markings. Pages clean. Binding firm. Jacket in removable protective sleeve. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About The Secret Pilgrim
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. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this late Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.