Used. Paperback. John le Carré’s brilliant post-Cold War thriller finds a retired British intelligence officer and his mercurial, missing double agent locked in a decades-long game of personal chess. When his former protégé vanishes alongside a fortune, Tim Cranmer must dust off his old tradecraft and chase him from the English countryside all the way to the volatile Russian frontier. It is a masterclass in espionage where ideological loyalties crumble and old rivals make terribly dangerous moves. If you like your spy stories laced with sharp wit and profound melancholy, this pursuit is well worth playing.