John le Carré’s Agent Running in the Field is a gripping, timely novel about friendship and loss, betrayal and loyalty, in a world where political idealism is under threat from bitter reality. The book setting tells the story of the British secret service ‘Circus’ (le Carré’s fictionalized version of MI6) and its Cold War activities. Nat is a 47-year-old man working in Brussels as an undercover director. He is also struggling to come to terms with his parents’ recent deaths — his mother died suddenly in her sleep two weeks before the end of the book and his father died five years prior to that. The narrative shifts back and forth between Nat’s present-time work activity and memories from the past, which give insight into what shaped him into being such a good spy
John le Carré’s Agent Running in the Field is a gripping, timely novel about friendship and loss, betrayal and loyalty, in a world where political idealism is under threat from bitter reality.
The book is about friendship and loss, betrayal and loyalty, in a world where political idealism is under threat from bitter reality. In it you’ll meet many of the characters from John le Carré’s previous novels – including Alec Leamas, George Smiley and Peter Guillam – as well as new ones who are inspired by them.
It’s also set in the Cold War era when Britain was at war again with Europe’s other superpower: America (see also: Operation Backfire).
The book setting tells the story of the British secret service ‘Circus’ (le Carré’s fictionalized version of MI6) and its Cold War activities.
The book setting tells the story of the British secret service ‘Circus’ (le Carré’s fictionalized version of MI6) and its Cold War activities.
The story is told from the point of view of an agent working for Circus, who is given orders to find out what his boss knows about a scientist who has disappeared while on holiday in East Germany. This man was wanted by Soviet intelligence because he had been working on a new warhead that could be used against military targets. He has also been sending coded messages home via radio stations like Radio Free Europe which are monitored by Soviet intelligence agents stationed abroad, although they cannot intercept them because they are encrypted using complex mathematics based on prime numbers such as 2^x, where x is any natural number between 1 and 100 inclusive (1 being prime).
The main character of the story is Nat, a 47-year-old man working in Brussels as an undercover director.
The main character of the story is Nat, a 47-year-old man working in Brussels as an undercover director. He’s British and has been living in Belgium for several years, working on various secret missions for MI5.
Nat recently received an assignment from London: to find out who was behind the terrorist attacks that took place at Brussels Airport last month (the attack killed 32 people). His job is to pose as a businessman named Jacques Devereux and try to gain access to one of their members—a man named Rene Brandelaer who works at Europol HQ.
The first thing you’ll notice about this book is how well it’s written! There are no errors or spelling mistakes; everything flows smoothly from beginning to end without any hiccups along the way…
Nat is also struggling to come to terms with his parents’ recent deaths — his mother died suddenly in her sleep two weeks before the end of the book and his father died five years prior to that. The narrative shifts back and forth between Nat’s present-time work activity and memories from the past, which give insight into what shaped him into being such a good spy.
Nat is also struggling to come to terms with his parents’ recent deaths — his mother died suddenly in her sleep two weeks before the end of the book and his father died five years prior to that. The narrative shifts back and forth between Nat’s present-time work activity and memories from the past, which give insight into what shaped him into being such a good spy.
It’s clear that he has been affected by these events, but he doesn’t talk about them much at all because it would be too painful for him if people knew how much they were affecting him. Instead he focuses on keeping up appearances so no one suspects anything is wrong — except maybe himself!
He befriends Ed, a young graduate from Oxford (also part of Circus) who has never been close enough with anyone to form meaningful connections until now.
He befriends Ed, a young graduate from Oxford (also part of Circus) who has never been close enough with anyone to form meaningful connections until now. Nat is the older brother Ed never had, and he becomes the confidante and muse for Ed. They share a love of literature that is both rare in itself but also shared by many other characters in this book: Julia’s fiancé Michael Nicholson; Laura Lydon; Vassily Fomenko; even Helen Macgregor herself! All these people have something in common: they’re all writers.
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