{"product_id":"silverview-isbn-9780593554739","title":"Silverview","description":"JOHN LE CARRÉ was born in 1931. For six decades he wrote novels that came to define our age. The son of a confidence trickster, he spent his childhood between boarding school and the London underworld. At sixteen he found refuge at the university of Bern, then later at Oxford. A spell of teaching at Eton led him to a short career in British Intelligence, in MI5 and MI6. He published his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eCall for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1961 while still a secret servant. His third novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold\u003c\/i\u003e, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy \u003ci\u003eTinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Smiley’s People\u003c\/i\u003e. At the end of the Cold War, le Carré widened his scope to explore an international landscape including the arms trade and the War on Terror. His memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Pigeon Tunnel\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2016 and the last George Smiley novel, \u003ci\u003eA Legacy of Spies\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 2017. \u003ci\u003eSilverview\u003c\/i\u003e is his twenty-sixth novel. John le Carré died on December 12, 2020.","brand":"Random House Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302410277093,"sku":"NP9780593554739","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593554739_96e670b3-f229-4df7-98c4-88a7585f8c18.jpg?v=1742927396","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/silverview-isbn-9780593554739","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}