A Legacy of Spies Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of the Legacy of Spies by John le Carré, go through by Tom Hollander.

Chosen like a Reserve of the Year in THE DAYS Literary Supplement, the Evening Regular, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, THE DAYS

‘A brilliant book of deception, love and trust to become listed on his supreme cannon’ Evening Standard

‘Classic le Carré. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Arrived in from the Cold offers le Carré exercised his gift being a storyteller therefore powerfully and about A Legacy of Spies to such thrilling impact’ John Banville, Guardian

Peter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Assistance, has long retired to Brittany when a notice arrives, summoning him to London. The reason? Cold War spirits have come back again to haunt him. Cleverness operations which were once the toast of the Service are to be dissected with a generation with no memory from the Berlin Wall structure. Somebody must purchase innocent bloodstream spilt in the name of the higher good .

‘Absolutely engrossing and properly pitched. There is only one le Carré. Eloquent, refined, sublimely paced’ Daily Mail

‘Splendid, fast-paced, riveting’ Andrew Marr, Weekend Times

‘Remarkable. Classic John le Carré. It gives the reader, finally, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wines, le Carré’s writing has got richer with age. Don’t await the paperback’ The Times

‘Perhaps the most important novelist of the next half of the 20th century in Britain. He’s in the initial rank’ Ian McEwan

‘One of those writers who will be read a hundred years from now’ Robert Harris