A new chapter in cold war espionage

LOVERS of espionage thrillers are in for a treat in this setting in the height of the Cold War with spies drenched in their craft and idiosyncrasies.

- KARLA'S CHOICE Nick Harkaway

British author David John Moore Cornwell, better known by his pen name, John le Carré, died in 2020 but his spy thrillers are not lost thanks to his son Nicholas Cornwell, aka Nick Harkaway.

Set in 1963, Hungarian publisher Laszlo Bánáti, who is also a Soviet agent known as Róka, vanishes just as a Russian agent arrives in London with instructions to kill him.

George Smiley, who retired to rekindle his marriage to Ann, is lured back by Control, head of the Circus (MI6) to investigate the sudden disappearance.