John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies

LynnDianne Beene (University of New Mexico)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of Glasgow), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2017

Places

United Kingdom (Country of Origin)
United States (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel
Spy and Espionage

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Le Carré reanimated

The Spy

A Legacy of Spies

(2017).

Legacy

brings Smiley’s right-hand man, Peter Guillam, out of retirement to answer to the Secret Service’s lawyers and bureaucrats for actions that took place leading up to and during

Spy

’s Operation Windfall. The Circus, now alternately called the Office or the Box, writes Guillam directing him to return from his Les Deux Eglises’ farmstead because Leamas’ son (Christoph) and Gold’s previously unknown daughter (Karen) have joined forces to sue the British spy agency, specifically Guillam and George Smiley, for their parents’ wrongful deaths. Although rightly suspicious, Guilliam knows he is required to appear as per “Paragraph 14” of his termination agreement; that is, Guillam, like all former agents, has a…

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Citation: Beene, LynnDianne. "A Legacy of Spies". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 February 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38834, accessed 02 May 2024.]

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