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The Spy in His Prime (The Secret Pilgrim, Vol 3) (Audio Cassette) (Abridged)
The Spy in His Prime - The Secret Pilgrim, Vol 3 - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:John Le Carre The Berlin Wall has toppled, the Iron-Curtain has been swept aside, the Cold War is no more .. — John Ie Carre has seized this extraordinary moment in history to penetrate even further the very essence of espionage - -the intricate weave of suspicion, danger, excitement, deception, failure, exhilaration and boredom. — Here, known to us already fro... more »m The Russia House, is Ned, a shrewd, loyal, decent soldier in British Intelligence. Now, the explosions of change -and the memories stirred by his mentor and hero George Smiley- force Ned to reflect on his last days as a spy.
As Ned's career in British Intelligence draws to a close, he is finally forced to confront the moral conundrums that have plagued him, and the world, for over thirty years. When he's sent to break Frewin, a cypher clerk who has been co-opted by Moscow, Ned realizes
that the isolation imposed by the Service is a double-edged sword; one that insures personal security, but at the cost of severe loneliness and vulnerability.
Perhaps Smiley is right; now that the Cold War has come to an end, so has the need for isolation. Ned's final epiphany - that the evil is not in the system, but in the man - will now hold him in good stead as he becomes an infant in the overt world and must learn to walk again.