“A Legacy of Spies”: John le Carré’s latest, maybe last, venture. GEORGE SMILEY is back

The old masters, John and George, puzzle their watchers.

SO GEORGE SMILEY is back at last. That, at any rate, is the marketing come-on for John le Carré’s 24th novel, two decades after the wily old spymaster is generally reckoned to have crept into well-deserved if mysterious retirement…

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