John Le Carré: A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 [2022] paperback WWII "Yakuza" is the first book

"Yakuza" is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia

whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton

Trapped alone behind the mysterious wall she begins the arduous work of survival

Ali's got enough going on

Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand

John Le Carré: A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 [2022] paperback WWII "Yakuza" is the first bookJohn le Carre was a defining writer of his time. From The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which changed our understanding of the secret agent from guns and Martinis to shadows and moral ambiguity, to Agent Running in the Field, in which modern Britain is mired in political corruption, he catalogued our sins and recounted the journey of the Anglosphere into the twenty first century. In these letters, le Carre reveals himself to be a consummate