Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece filled with suspense betrayal desire & drama The Cold War is over & retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry -- dreamer dissolute philanderer & disloyal friend
- has vanished along with Tim's mistress As their trail takes him to the lawless wilds of Russia & the North Caucasus he is forced to question everything he stood for Set in a fragmented uncertain post-Soviet world le Carre's brutal story of falsehoods & betrayal shows men playing dangerous games beyond their control