The Secret Pilgrim
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Narrated by:
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Michael Jayston
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By:
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John le Carré
About this listen
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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 final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.
© John le Carré 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
Disappointing
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excellent narration
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I was expecting an epic story but instead it’s a look back at stand out moments in a spy’s career. George Smiley appears only really to add spy philosophy to the mix.
Overall it was a rather dull read with no gripping plot.
The narrator reads well and his George Smiley sounds a lot like Alec Guinness’s voicing of the character in the BBC Smiley episodes.
A spy’s look back over his career
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