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The Secret Pilgrim is a 1990 episodic novel by British writer John le Carré, set within the frame narrative of an informal dinner talk given at the spy-training school in Sarratt by George Smiley. As Smiley talks, the first-person narrator, whom readers know only as "Ned", recalls his own experiences in a long career in the service.
- John Le Carré
- 1990
22 de ago. de 2020 · The secret pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, and he has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. He is now approaching the end of his career, and is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years.
The Secret Pilgrim (O Peregrino Secreto) [1] é um romance episódico de John le Carré, publicado em Janeiro de 1990, enquadrado na narrativa do quadro de uma conversa de jantar informal dada na escola de treinamento de espiões em Sarratt por George Smiley.
25 de dez. de 1990 · In The Secret Pilgrim, Ned is the pilgrim who has wrestled with the faith necessary in his particular line of work. After a full career with the Secret Intelligence Service (aka the "Circus"), Ned has been shunted off to the Sarratt / "Nursery" because those who can, do; those who can't, teach.
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The secret pilgrim. The Berlin Wall has come down. The Cold War is over. Ned, who learned his tradecraft at Smiley's feet, has been put out to grass at Sarratt, known otherwise as the Nursery, the training school for young entrants to the British Secret Service.
With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East—an electrifying,...
With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East—an electrifying, clandestine tour of honorable old knights and notorious traitors, triumph and failure, passion and hate, suspicion, sudden death, and old secrets that haunt ...
