A Perfect Spy Le Carre, John/ Full-Cast Audio (NRT)

This BBC full-cast radio drama of John le Carre''s bestselling novel stars James Fox as Magnus Pym, with a supporting cast including Harriet Walter and Julian Rhind-Tutt. This recording was thought lost, but was recently rediscovered and restored.
Magnus Pym, Counsellor at the British Embassy, is hosting a dinner party at his home in Vienna when he receives an unexpected telephone call that will profoundly affect his life. Once the guests have gone, Pym breaks the news to his wife, Mary: his father, Rick, is dead. In a state of shock, he says something Mary cannot understand--"After all these years, I''m free." Magnus flies back to England to attend the funeral--and doesn''t return. It soon becomes clear that Pym has been keeping secrets from his family and his employers...

Author Bio

John Le Carre

Born David Cornwell in Poole, Dorset, John Le Carr? attended Berne University in Switzerland and Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating in 1956 with a B.A. in modern languages. After tutoring at Eton for two years, he went to work for the British Foreign Service in Bonn and Hamburg from 1959 to 1964. Le Carr? is best known for his brooding international spy, the ironically named George Smiley. In fact, Smiley is a dark, disturbed agent mired in the lonely, cutthroat world of espionage where the line between good and evil is often blurred, and sometimes erased. Le Carr? pulls no punches in depicting the stark, inhuman nature of international intrigue. He first gained fame for the classic thriller THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (1963), which featured Smiley in a small, supporting role. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, many people predicted that Le Carr?'s career would die with the Cold War. But Le Carr? proved them wrong, finding newly relevant topics in the post-Cold-War world.

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New York Times Book Review
"...[A] first-rate espionage novel, perhaps the best in his already impressive oevre." - Frank Conroy 4/12/86

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Book Format:		Audio Cassette - Abridged / Audio CD - Abridged
Number of Pages:		2
Publisher:		Audiogo

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