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Guardian's list of the best crime and thrillers of 2024:
An established author in his own right, le Carré’s youngest son Nick Harkaway has slid into the gap in his father’s oeuvre between 
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). In Karla’s Choice, a Soviet assassin comes to London to kill Hungarian publisher Laszlo Banati, but subsequently changes his mind. Banati, however, is missing, and Smiley is lured out of retirement to find him and discover why the Soviets wanted him dead: a mission that puts the shabby, self-effacing hero back on the trail of his old nemesis, Karla. Le Carré fans will certainly applaud Harkaway’s success at channelling his late father’s voice in this excellent addition to the canon.
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