The Tailor of Panama, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ``Entertaining . . . a riotous, readable novel . . . A worthy successor to Graham Greene's most wicked entertainments.``--The New York Times

He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his ``handlers`` don't realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he'll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start to spin out of control, Harry is suddenly in over his head--thrown into a lethal maze of politics and espionage, with unthinkable consequences. . . .

Praise for The Tailor of Panama

``Riveting . . . Le Carre has cut another masterpiece.``--Los Angeles Times

``What makes le Carre the reigning grand master of espionage fiction? . . . Craft, certainly; he maintains an almost magnificent control of material, pace, dialogue, characterization.``--The Baltimore Sun

``Brilliant . . . Le Carre remains fair in front of his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive.``--Publishers Weekly (starred review)