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The Secret Pilgrim is a 1990 episodic novel by British writer John le Carré, set within the frame narrative of an informal dinner talk given at the spy-training school in Sarratt by George Smiley. As Smiley talks, the first-person narrator, whom readers know only as "Ned", recalls his own experiences in a long career in the service.
25 de dic. de 1990 · In The Secret Pilgrim, Ned is the pilgrim who has wrestled with the faith necessary in his particular line of work. After a full career with the Secret Intelligence Service (aka the "Circus"), Ned has been shunted off to the Sarratt / "Nursery" because those who can, do; those who can't, teach.
the secret pilgrim By John le Carré. his fine novel takes the form of a reverie-memoir, a series of reflections on a long life in the espionage business recalled by a surnameless man...
22 de ago. de 2020 · The secret pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, and he has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. He is now approaching the end of his career, and is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years.
With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East—an electrifying,...
The eighth of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim is a gripping feat of narrative brilliance. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy.
With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East—an electrifying, clandestine tour of honorable old knights and notorious traitors, triumph and failure, passion and hate, suspicion, sudden death, and old secrets that haunt ...
