About the Book Master storyteller John le Carres spy novels, featuring the intriguing George Smiley, have sold millions of copies worldwide and were the premise of a popular British TV series starring Sir Alec Guiness. Now the bestselling author brings readers a new story about a new kind of espionage, set during the breakup of the Soviet Union. Book Synopsis From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager , now an AMC miniseries With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmers star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protg, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left. . . . Praise for Our Game As thrilling as le Carr gets . . . The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spy and some of the outraged honor of The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl . -- The Boston Globe Furious in action . . . takes us by the neck on page one and never lets go. -- Chicago Sun-Times Irresistible . . . a sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against him. -- Time Gripping. -- The Christian Science Monitor Review Quotes As thrilling as le Carr gets . . . The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spy and some of the outraged honor of The Night Manager and The Little Drummer Girl . -- The Boston Globe Furious in action . . . takes us by the neck on page one and never lets go. -- Chicago Sun-Times Irresistible . . . a sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against him. -- Time Gripping. -- The Christian Science Monitor About the Author John Le Carr was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Bern and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, his third book, secured him a worldwide reputation. He divides his time between England and the Continent.