Publisher: Alfred A. Knopp: New York 1986

Edition: First Edition (stated)

Year: 1986

Description: F, 476 pp.; Book of the Month Club; This is Spy Master writer John le Carre's eleventh novel following The Little Drummer Girl (1982). The Perfect Spy is the life story of a secret double agent, Magnus Pym. Pym works for British Intelligence but is really spying for the Czechoslovak secret service. As a character Magnus Pym is developed from John le Carre's own father Rick Pym who gathered and lost several fortunes as a con man working for organized crime.; F dj ; John le Carre was born in Poole, England on Oct. 19, 1931 and died on Dec. 12, 2020 at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, England.

Author: John le Carre