PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : THE TAILOR OF PANAMA – JOHN LE CARRE

A work of rare brilliance The Times Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama s rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard – a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money – walks into his shop, Harry s fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soon he finds himself out of his depth in an international game he can never hope to win. Le Carre s savage satire on the espionage trade is set in a corrupt universe without heroes or honour, where the innocent are collateral damage and treachery plays out as tragic farce. A tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated The New York Times Book Review