Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry GENERAL MYSTERY & DETECTIVE | Bridie does a little digging and learns that Christabel isn’t his daughter so much as his prized specimen. THRILLER ESPIONAGE, by We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. And why on earth was Vodyanov carrying Tempe’s own contact information? Categories: [4], John le Carré's editor at Viking Books, Mary Mount, has said that "The thing about Le Carré is that he's always been as much at home in Europe as Britain. Let’s give an enthusiastic toast to John le Carré. INTERNATIONAL CRIME Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice (The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. agent running in the field by John le Carré ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 22, 2019 Now that he’s revisited and deepened the tissue of double-crosses that put him on the map with George Smiley, le Carré ( A Legacy of Spies , 2017, etc. John le Carré. influencers in the know since 1933. ), evergreen at 87, turns … Kathy Reichs, by GENERAL & DOMESTIC THRILLER, by Agent Running in the Field is le Carré's 25th novel Credit: Rex/Viking A s the novel progresses, Ed’s fervent views lead him to take a course of action that lands both him and Nat in … Retrieve credentials. About Agent Running in the Field. [6] Robert McCrum wrote of the book; "Le Carré delivers a tale for our times, replete with the classic seasoning of betrayal, secret state shenanigans and sad-eyed human frailty, all baked into an oven-hot contemporary thriller that’s partly inspired by the machinations of 21st-century Ukraine, today more than ever the fatal crossroads of great power politics. | “I’m a field man,” says Nat, a Secret Intelligence Service agent, “not a desk jockey, not a social carer.” Convinced at 47 that his years running spies throughout Europe are over, he accepts one last assignment as the only alternative to being put out to pasture for good: assuming command of Haven, the London substation he describes to his unenthusiastic wife, human rights lawyer Prudence, as “a Mickey Mouse outfit” where his job will be “either to get it on its feet or speed it on its way to the graveyard.” No sooner has Nat sunk into this forgettable ambit than three disquieting developments arise. Now that he’s revisited and deepened the tissue of double-crosses that put him on the map with George Smiley, le Carré (A Legacy of Spies, 2017, etc. A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the new political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a very dangerous path. Sir Edmund has hidden Christabel away her whole life and wants Bridie to believe this is an ordinary kidnapping. See our, Read a limited number of articles each month, You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads, Unlimited access to washingtonpost.com on any device, Unlimited access to all Washington Post apps, No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. | The novel is set in 2018 and depicts the relationship between Nat (né Anatoly), a 47-year-old member of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and a young man he plays badminton with weekly. A tragicomic salute to both the recuperative powers of its has-been hero and the remarkable career of its nonpareil author. And Ed Shannon, the much-younger researcher who joined Nat’s athletic club in order to play badminton with him and vent about the folly of Brexit and the rise of neo-Nazism in the States, suddenly appears in an alarming new role. Categories: SUSPENSE Seeing the world as he knows it—not the new world order or the special relationship, but his own faded patch of it—threatened from every corner, Nat, determined to assert himself one last time, hatches a rickety plan to keep the pot from boiling over. Jess Kidd Florence, a probationer who’s his nominal second-in-command, angrily quits over the unexplained cancellation of a project she’s designed, spearheaded, and pitched to the powers that be. RELEASE DATE: Oct. 22, 2019. Breaking and entering. | Filling this role in “Agent Running in the Field” is a talented young probationer named Florence who quits the service, telling Nat she is sick of lying. We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests.