A Perfect Spy

CA$190

Illustrated by Sam Green

John le Carré’s extraordinary spy thriller features eight colour illustrations by artist Sam Green, as well as a special illustrated slipcase. The perfect collector’s edition of A Perfect Spy.

● Only 4 Left in Stock

A Perfect Spy

CA$190

● Only 4 Left in Stock

Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingBound in screen-printed and blocked cloth
Printed and blocked slipcase
Black page tops

Dimensions9½ inches x 6¼ inches

FontSet in Imprint with Laima as display

Pages608 pages

AuthorJohn le Carré

Illustrated bySam Green

IllustrationIntegrated black-and-white title-page illustration plus 8 full-page colour illustrations

Publication Date17/05/2022

PrintingFirst Printing

Editor's Notes

Widely regarded as John le Carré’s masterpiece, A Perfect Spy is also the author’s most autobiographical work, drawing on his own early life and experiences. The result is a novel that is both a thrill ride of interconnected mysteries, and a moving portrayal of a life marked by subterfuge and betrayal. For this first ever illustrated edition, The Folio Society and artist Sam Green worked closely with the le Carré estate to ensure that the illustrations captured all the novel’s tension and poignancy. When talking about the book, le Carré commented: ‘Although I've never been to a shrink, writing A Perfect Spy is probably what a very wise shrink would have advised me to do’. This very special novel represents a chance not only to read one of the greatest spy stories every written, it also provides an opportunity to get to know one of our greatest writers a little better.

About the Author

John le Carré is the nom de plume of David John Moore Cornwell, who was born in 1931 in Poole, Dorset. He was educated at Sherborne School, at the University of Berne (where he studied German literature for a year) and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in modern languages. He taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964, serving first as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn and subsequently as Political Consul in Hamburg. He started writing novels in 1961. His third novel,The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963; Folio Society 2017)Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974; Folio Society 2009), The Honourable Schoolboy (1977; Folio Society 2010) and Smiley’s People (1979; Folio Society 2006). Le Carré went on to write several standalone novels, as well as the George Smiley series and a memoir. He died on 12 December 2020.

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