![]() Barley's mission is to rendezvous with Goethe in Russia, ask lots of questions, and evaluate whether he's for real.or just part of a KGB disinformation scheme. But the other part provides full details on the USSR's most secret defense weaponry-which is apparently in utter shambles! Can the UK and US trust this data and proceed with grand-scale disarmament? To find out, the Brits recruit the left-wing London publisher Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair, who has been chosen-by the manuscript's author, a reclusive Soviet scientist nicknamed "Goethe"-to handle the book's publication in the West. Part of it consists of wild sociopolitical ramblings. British Intelligence has gotten hold of a manuscript smuggled out of Russia. ![]() Does glasnost mean the Cold War is over? Le Carre, the ultimate chronicler of Cold War espionage, ponders that issue (and others) in an up-to-date spy fable: his drollest work thus far, his simplest plot by a long shot, and sturdy entertainment throughout-even if not in the same league with the Karla trilogy and other le Carre classics. ![]()
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