Rent The Tailor of Panama: A Novel

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)

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