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Silverview
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Toby Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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April in Spain
- A Novel
- Written by: John Banville
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés, and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it's hard at first to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him.
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Best Quirke yet!
- By Junkopartner on 2021-10-12
Written by: John Banville
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Agent Running in the Field
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Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
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Wonderful.
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Written by: John le Carré
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The Dark Remains
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- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he’s dead and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful friends, Carter’s left behind his share of enemies. So, who dealt the fatal blow? DC Jack Laidlaw’s reputation precedes him. He’s not a team player, but he’s got a sixth sense for what’s happening on the streets. His boss chalks the violence up to the usual rivalries, but is it that simple? As two Glasgow gangs go to war, Laidlaw needs to find out who got Carter before the whole city explodes.
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Truly Masterful
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Written by: William McIlvanney, and others
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A Private Spy
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- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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The never-before-seen correspondence of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors, and public figures. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author's humor, generosity, and wit—a side of him many listeners have not previously seen.
Written by: John le Carré, and others
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- Narrated by: Tom Baker
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Tom Baker stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John le Carré’s powerful thriller. In the third year of perestroika, London publisher Barley Blair is sent a manuscript from Moscow. Exposing Russian nuclear threats as a sham, the information - if it’s genuine - could shatter East-West relations. Jazz-loving, hard-drinking Blair is hardly the spymasters’ idea of the perfect agent, yet they are forced to send him to Moscow to make contact.
Written by: John le Carré
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Call for the Dead
- Written by: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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This novel, set in London in the late 1950s, finds George Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate – only to uncover a murderous conspiracy.
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Worth a Credit
- By Langer on 2021-08-07
Written by: John le Carré
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April in Spain
- A Novel
- Written by: John Banville
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés, and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it's hard at first to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him.
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Best Quirke yet!
- By Junkopartner on 2021-10-12
Written by: John Banville
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Agent Running in the Field
- A Novel
- Written by: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
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Wonderful.
- By Evalina on 2020-01-05
Written by: John le Carré
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The Dark Remains
- Written by: William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin
- Narrated by: Brian Cox
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people. Now he’s dead and it was no accident. Besides a distraught family and a heap of powerful friends, Carter’s left behind his share of enemies. So, who dealt the fatal blow? DC Jack Laidlaw’s reputation precedes him. He’s not a team player, but he’s got a sixth sense for what’s happening on the streets. His boss chalks the violence up to the usual rivalries, but is it that simple? As two Glasgow gangs go to war, Laidlaw needs to find out who got Carter before the whole city explodes.
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Truly Masterful
- By David and Lisa on 2021-10-15
Written by: William McIlvanney, and others
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré, 1945-2020
- Written by: John le Carré, Tim Cornwell - editor
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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The never-before-seen correspondence of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors, and public figures. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author's humor, generosity, and wit—a side of him many listeners have not previously seen.
Written by: John le Carré, and others
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- Narrated by: Tom Baker
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Tom Baker stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John le Carré’s powerful thriller. In the third year of perestroika, London publisher Barley Blair is sent a manuscript from Moscow. Exposing Russian nuclear threats as a sham, the information - if it’s genuine - could shatter East-West relations. Jazz-loving, hard-drinking Blair is hardly the spymasters’ idea of the perfect agent, yet they are forced to send him to Moscow to make contact.
Written by: John le Carré
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Call for the Dead
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This novel, set in London in the late 1950s, finds George Smiley engaged in the humdrum job of security vetting. But when a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide after an apparently unproblematic interview, Smiley is baffled. Refusing to believe that Fennan shot himself soon after making a cup of cocoa and asking the exchange to telephone him in the morning, Smiley decides to investigate – only to uncover a murderous conspiracy.
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Worth a Credit
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A Legacy of Spies
- A Novel
- Written by: John le Carré
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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley, and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War.
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Great Experience
- By Fussy Fussner on 2019-07-20
Written by: John le Carré
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The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas
- BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
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- Narrated by: full cast, Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, thrilling spy novels.
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Nobody does audio adaptations like the BBC
- By JohnS on 2021-04-04
Written by: John le Carré
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State of Terror
- A Novel
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After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate
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Turn up the speed!
- By Kindle Customer on 2021-10-16
Written by: Louise Penny, and others
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The Mission Song
- Written by: John le Carré
- Narrated by: David Oyelowo
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Abandoned by his parents, Bruno Salvador has long looked for guidance. He found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility, Salvo (as he's known) translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, and snatched voice-mail messages. When Anderson sends him to a mysterious island to interpret during a secret conference, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain--but then he hears something he should not have.
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Another outstanding novel by the genre's master
- By Peter C Sutherland on 2020-05-28
Written by: John le Carré
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A Heart Full of Headstones
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John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Although it's not the first time the legendary detective has taken the law into his own hands, it might be the last. What drove a good man to cross the line? Or have times changed, and the rules with them? Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke faces Edinburgh's most explosive case in years, as a corrupt cop goes missing after claiming to harbour secrets that could sink the city's police force.
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gripping
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Written by: Ian Rankin
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- Written by: Val McDermid
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The year started badly and only got worse - blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else's bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and the year is ripe with possibilities. But Allie is a woman in a man's world. Desperate to get away from the "women's stories" the Glasgow desk keeps assigning her, she strikes up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist Danny Sullivan. From the start, their stories create enemies.
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Good
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Written by: Val McDermid
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Never
- A Novel
- Written by: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 23 hrs and 58 mins
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Never is an extraordinary novel, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding story that transports listeners to the brink of the unimaginable.
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who wrote this? not Ken Follett for sure
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Written by: Ken Follett
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Our Kind of Traitor
- Written by: John le Carré
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
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Written by: John le Carré
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Other George Smiley Stories
- Written by: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
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Call for the Dead (Abridged): George Smiley had liked the man and now the man was dead. But why? Fennan was dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn’t go on. Smiley decides to investigate – only to uncover a murderous conspiracy with its roots in his own secret wartime past. A Murder of Quality (Abridged): Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband is trying to kill her.
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Abridged version
- By Ke Sun on 2023-01-02
Written by: John le Carré
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Bad Actors
- Slough House, Book 8
- Written by: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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In London’s MI5 headquarters, a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster - a specialist who advises the Prime Minister’s office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate - has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down.
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Great book
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Written by: Mick Herron
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Dead Lions
- Slough House, Book 2
- Written by: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts. But the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered.
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Elegant story
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Written by: Mick Herron
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Constant Gardener and Other Stories
- Written by: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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The Constant Gardener (Abridged): The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. And her putative African lover and travelling companion has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa’s husband, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. On his way he meets terror, violence and conspiracy, but his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love.
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Abridged too far
- By P. White on 2023-01-07
Written by: John le Carré
Publisher's Summary
An instant New York Times bestseller!
In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years—the secret world itself.
“[Le Carré] was often considered one of the finest novelists, period, since World War II. It’s not that he 'transcended the genre,' as the tired saying goes; it’s that he elevated the level of play… [Silverview’s] sense of moral ambivalence remains exquisitely calibrated.” —The New York Times Book Review
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . .
Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
What the critics say
One of:
TIME's "34 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2021"
The Guardian's "50 biggest books of autumn 2021"
Toronto Star's "35 books you need to know about in Fall 2021"
Yahoo’s “20 buzzy books for Fall 2021”
“A fitting requiem for the career of the man who brought a new level of complexity and humanity to espionage fiction.” (Booklist, starred review)
“[In Silverview,] le Carré plays out revelations about [the characters] slowly and teasingly, and, in the end, they’re as damning as you could wish. The real drama, however, is in the present, where all the characters are hopelessly intertwined and compromised by their loves and loyalties, none of them innocent.... The author’s last few novels have been increasingly valedictory, but this one is truly haunted by intimations of mortality.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
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- Close Listener
- 2021-10-14
Le Carré's SILVERVIEW brings him and us back home
Through his incomparable character development, Le Carré once again creates a personal, human story interwoven with the hairy tentacles of the British Secret Service. As if he's come home for his last novel (?... Is there more?), published posthumously, Le Carré brings us back into the world about which he always wrote best - his unique, insightful, and exquisitely expressed view of the few highs and many lows intrinsic to the world of western spies. His heroes go against the grain, and the values they personify indict our consumptive arrogance and help us to recognize how we might make things better. Never matched for quality, long live Le Carré.
15 people found this helpful
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- A. Hartwig
- 2021-10-14
Classic elements of le Carré with unfulfilling end
The hubris of rating authors like le Carré makes me queasy. This review is simply an eager audience member commenting on how entertained I was by the experience.
3 stars in my book means above average. Pretty good.
His books have frequently made me feel that I’m ignorant about a lot of behind the scenes assumptions, history, (British) cultural quirks, etc. Silverview is no different. I have no doubt I’m ignorant about a great many things! Nonetheless, it is a compelling story with well imagined & detailed characters. I enjoyed the ride & was eager for explanations at the end. The concluding scenes are perhaps too subtle for my American viewpoint. I didn’t find it satisfying.
~Andy
11 people found this helpful
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- Dai Bach
- 2021-10-13
The master delivers again
Completed in one session . A beautiful intertwining of emotions and relationships all to a background of historical events and machinations of the spy industry and decent people doing their best
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- DKGeePC
- 2021-11-05
Chap 10 and I still have no clue..
At this point In this book I can only say the narration is very pleasant but I have no clue what the story is really about. I give up
6 people found this helpful
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- bang
- 2021-10-17
Classic JLC, reminiscent of earlier shorter works.
wonderful surprise from the master. return to shorter tight form of story, but colored with traces of Alec, George, Connie...
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- Leonard Komen
- 2021-10-26
too obtuse and slow
I thought iI was used to LeCarre but this one failed to intrigue me. The character development was all over the place
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- Rick
- 2021-10-21
A classic sign off by Le Carre
A loyal follower of Le Carre might note the journey of his own polished eye for the nuances of human nature in this story. This is a great story about peeling away the many layers of a great con.
Sadly, this was his last known work before his passing. He is one of the great writers of our time and will be sorely missed.
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- marlofarts
- 2021-10-18
One last treat from the Master…
Having been saddened by David Cornwell’s passing passing last year, I was pleasantly surprised to find an advanced sale offer for Silverview on Audible. One last brilliantly written story from John le Carré. Toby Jones’s narration was a treat to listen to. This was for me a special and unexpected find, and one that did not disappoint.
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- MarkSR
- 2021-10-17
Horrible writing and particularly awful dialog
Couldn’t make it past Chapter 2. This is not the Le Carre that I’ve been a fan of for 20 year. I don’t actually believe that Le Carre wrote this or, if he did, I don’t believe he was well.
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- Lawrie C Dean
- 2021-11-06
Good carré
Dislike audible since new owner. Messes with my iPad a lot and now have 2 audible subs a pain
1 person found this helpful