A Legacy of Spies

A Legacy of Spies revisits the events of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold from the perspective of Peter Guillam, who is called in from retirement when the Circus is sued by the son of Alec Leamas. Guillam revisits documents from the operation and tells the investigating lawyers (some of) his part of the story. The gloomy atmosphere of shabbiness, moral ambiguity, and futility that is present in le Carre novels is in full force here, except, strangely, when George Smiley finally enters the scene.