Silverview, the posthumous work of John Le Carré, tells the story of Julian Lawndsley, who left his job in the big city for a quieter life in a bookstore in a small town on the English coast, but a few months later he was visited by Edward, an immigrant from Poland, who has too much information about his family and his store.
Silverview , the posthumous work by popular British spy novelist John Le Carré, will go on sale in October, confirmed the book’s publisher, Viking. “This is the real Le Carré, telling one more story,” the author’s youngest son, Mick Cornwell, said in a press release. “The book is taut, analytical, lyrical and fierce, finally searching for the soul of the modern Secret Intelligence Service. It is a magnificent and appropriate final novel, ”he added.
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Silverview tells the story of Julian Lawndsley, who left his job in the big city for a quieter life in a bookstore in a small town on the English coast, but a few months later is visited by Edward, an immigrant from Poland, who has too much information about his family and his store. Le Carré’s literary agent, Johnny Geller, told The Guardian newspaper that he was captivated by reading the book, as he expected, but noted that it was sad “not being able to pick up the phone and call him immediately.”
The author, whose real name was David Cornwell, was born in 1931 in Dorset (United Kingdom), and his best known work was his third novel: The spy who emerged from the cold . In total, he wrote 25 books, some of which were adapted into films or television series, such as El Jardinero Fiel, in 2005, or El Topo, in 2011. In addition, for 60 years he dominated the list of best-selling books with his fictional character George Smiley, an intelligence officer who revealed details of the author’s own life as a spy, since between 1950 and 1960, Le Carré worked for the British secret services. The last novel he published before he passed away, in December 2020, was Agent Running Through the Field , which was released in October 2019.