A Delicate Truth

I think he has easily burst out of being a genre writer and will be remembered as perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He will have charted our decline and recorded the nature of our bureaucracies like no one else has. But that's just been his route into some profound anxiety in the national narrative. Most writers I know think le Carré is no longer a spy writer. He should have won the Booker Prize a long time ago. It's time he won it and it's time he accepted it. He's in the first rank.

Ian McEwan, Telegraph

No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times, from the Second World War to the "War on Terror"

Guardian

One of those writers who will be read a century from now

Robert Harris

With A Delicate Truth, le Carré has in a sense come home. And it's a splendid homecoming . . . Satisfying, subtle and compelling

The Times

The perfectly paced, exquisitely cynical style that is le Carré's hallmark

Sunday Times

The master of the modern spy novel returns . . . this is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years

Daily Mail

A brilliant climax, with sinister deaths, casual torture, wrecked lives and shameful compromises

Observer

John le Carré has lost none of his ability in skewering the murkier foibles of the British Establishment. A tale of deception, greed, betrayal and ultimately, revenge . . . it is not until the last few pages that the full three dimensions of the plot are thrillingly revealed

Country Life

A writer of towering gifts . . . le Carré is one of the great analysts of the contemporary scene, who has a talent to provoke as well as unsettle

Independent

John le Carré takes us back to his favourite scenarios: Whitehall, the secret services, the gentleman's clubs, dodgy bankers, corrupt public schoolboys and gruesome American neo-cons . . . revelling once more in that imaginary world of secrets and lies that is le Carré's gift to us

Evening Standard

Tense, twisty, and driven by a melancholy insight into human motivation . . . deeply compelling

The Week

John le Carré is as recognisable a writer as Dickens or Austen, with an often-imitated but never rivalled cast of seedy spies, false lovers, public schoolboys struggling with guilt, and charming but immoral leaders of the brutal establishment . . . This is vintage le Carré and highly enjoyable

Financial Times

Thrilling, suspenseful . . . Fans will not be disappointed

Sunday Express

Utterly convincing characters, a tight plot . . . Wonderful

Sunday Mirror

Thrilling

Express

Choreographed with unsettling precision

Metro

When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind

Aung San Suu Kyi

Plunges the reader into a modern-day thriller...Dad won't be able to put it down

Metro

[It] has all the essential ingredients of his masterpieces: the dilemmas of duty, patriotism and decency

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Metro 'Books of the Year'

John Le Carré at his masterful best . . . nobody does it better

Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Books of the Year'

Widely hailed as a return to the good old Smiley days . . . le Carré writes with laconic elegance

Kate Saunders, The Times 'Books of the Year'