5/30/2023 0 Comments Le carre the russia house![]() ![]() If you enjoyed The Russia House, you might like le Carré's The Secret Pilgrim, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. John le Carrés first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them Barley. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries. ![]() ![]() A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. John le Carré's first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command themīarley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. ![]()
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