Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. One day his 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. Last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carré.