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The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations...

It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while the Department dealt with matters military. But the Department has been moribund since the War, its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents is dead, and vital evidence verifying the presence of Soviet missiles near the West German border is gone. John Avery is the Department's younger...

With SMERSH planning a demonstration of Soviet strength at an international Grand Prix in West Germany, James and an American female agent must work together to stop them.

A malfunction in a computer defense system leads to a nuclear cataclysm between two superpowers. In a world still reeling from the fallout of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of American bombers armed with a deadly payload of nuclear weapons heads towards Moscow, their motives mysterious. Suddenly, a nuclear apocalypse looms closer than it ever has and the lives of millions of people depend on the high-stakes diplomacy of leaders on both sides of...