Our Game (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John le Carre
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid-1990’s
- Setting: England and the Caucasus
- Principal Characters: Tim Cranmer, Larry Pettifer, Emma Manzini, Konstantin Checheyev, Marjorie Pew
- Genres: Long fiction, Spy fiction
- Subjects: Adultery, Loyalty, Intelligence service, Armaments
- Locales: England, Caucasus
With the 1963 publication of his third book, the phenomenally successful The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, British author John le Carré established himself as one of the spy genre’s finest contributors. In the years that followed, le Carré continued to chronicle the cat-and-mouse games of Cold War espionage in such novels as The Little Drummer Girl (1983), A Perfect Spy, (1986), and the three books that make up his acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), and Smiley’s People...
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