A Legacy of Spies

by John le Carré

Book 9 in the George Smiley series.

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Peter Guillam is summoned from retirement when a lawsuit reopens the British operation behind Alec Leamas's death. Files once treated as protected state secrets are now being examined by lawyers and younger officers who do not accept the Cold War assumptions of their predecessors.

Guillam is forced to reconstruct his part in the deception and to confront what George Smiley expected of him. The novel revisits The Spy Who Came in from the Cold from the perspective of those who survived and asks whether national purpose can excuse the deliberate ruin of individual lives.