Tim Cranmer retired secret servant and Larry Perrifer bored radical don philanderer and for twenty years Tims mercurial double agent against the now vanished Co... » 

Tim Cranmer retired secret servant and Larry Perrifer bored radical don philanderer and for twenty years Tims mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other into the lawless wilds of Moscow and then Southern Russia until a small unheardof nation becomes their proving ground in the finale to John le Carrs dazzling novel. Tim Cranmer retired secret servant and Larry Perrifer bored radical don philanderer and for twenty years Tims mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other into the lawless wilds of Moscow and then Southern Russia until a small unheardof nation becomes their proving ground in the finale to John le Carrs dazzling novel. «