Silverview

by John le Carré

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Julian Lawndsley leaves a City career to open a bookshop in an English seaside town. Edward Avon, a cultivated Polish émigré living nearby, befriends him and takes an unusual interest in the shop.

In London, a senior intelligence officer investigates a long-running security breach connected to Edward's past. The two stories converge around divided loyalties, family secrecy and the possibility that a respected former servant of the state has been living by a different moral code.