Silverview
by John Le Carre· 2022
The final completed novel from John le Carré finds an independent bookshop owner caught between the sinister attentions of a Polish emigre and the dogged suspicions of a British spy chief. In *Silverview* John le Carré turns his focus to the secret world.
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.
When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea... *Silverview* is the story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. John le Carré seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.
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The final completed novel from John le Carré finds an independent bookshop owner caught between the sinister attentions of a Polish emigre and the dogged suspicions of a British spy chief. In *Silverview* John le Carré turns his focus to the secret world. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea... *Silverview* is the story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. John le Carré seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.