Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - -Entertaining . . . a riotous, readable novel . . . A worthy successor to Graham Greene's most wicked entertainments.---The New York Times
He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his -handlers- don't realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he'll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start to spin out of control, Harry is suddenly in over his head--thrown into a lethal maze of politics and espionage, with unthinkable consequences. . . .
Praise for The Tailor of Panama
-Riveting . . . Le Carre has cut another masterpiece.---Los Angeles Times
-What makes le Carre the reigning grand master of espionage fiction? . . . Craft, certainly; he maintains an almost magnificent control of material, pace, dialogue, characterization.---The Baltimore Sun
-Brilliant . . . Le Carre remains fair in front of his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive.---Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Synopsis
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries
He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his "handlers" don't realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he'll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start to spin out of control, Harry is suddenly in over his head--thrown into a lethal maze of politics and espionage, with unthinkable consequences. . . .
Praise for The Tailor of Panama
"Entertaining . . . a riotous, readable novel . . . A worthy successor to Graham Greene's most wicked entertainments."--The New York Times
"Riveting . . . Le Carr has cut another masterpiece."--Los Angeles Times
"What makes le Carr the reigning grand master of espionage fiction? . . . Craft, certainly; he maintains an almost magnificent control of material, pace, dialogue, characterization."--The Baltimore Sun
"Brilliant . . . Le Carr remains fair in front of his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)