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Here is the explanation! Here at least is how, and why, and when, and where, if only I can decode them! Here amid these papers – and not in some paranoid corner of Cranmer’s overactive fantasy – are buried answers to questions that have been haunting me night and day for weeks on end: was I framed, set up, the target of a devilish conspiracy?

The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend - has vanished, along with Tim's mistress.

As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia and the North Caucasus, he is forced to question everything he stood for. Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carré's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control.

Published in 1996, this was le Carré’s second novel to address the harsh realities of the post-Cold War world, written with the same traditional spirit of adventure found in the work of his forebears, John Buchan and Eric Ambler.

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