Penguin presents the audiobook release of A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré, browse by Tom Hollander.

Chosen being a Publication of the entire year in THE DAYS Literary Health supplement, the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, The Times

‘A brilliant book of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon’ Evening Regular

‘Vintage le Carré. Hugely clever, breathtaking. Actually, not because the Spy Who Emerged in from the Cold has le Carré exercised his present like a storyteller so powerfully and about A Legacy of Spies to such fascinating effect’ John Banville, Guardian

Peter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Service, has longer retired to Brittany when a notice arrives, summoning him to London. The reason? Cold War spirits have come back to haunt him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast from the Service should be dissected by a generation without memory of the Berlin Wall. Somebody must purchase innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater good .

‘Absolutely engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carré. Eloquent, simple, sublimely paced’ Daily Email

‘Splendid, fast-paced, riveting’ Andrew Marr, Sunday Times

‘Remarkable. Vintage John le Carré. It offers the reader, at long last, bits of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wines, le Carré’s writing has got richer with age. Don’t wait for the paperback’ THE DAYS

‘Perhaps the most significant novelist of the next half from the 20th hundred years in Britain. He’s in the initial rank’ Ian McEwan

‘One of those writers who’ll be read a century from now’ Robert Harris