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Presented by Alex at the November 2025 meeting

A Perfect Spy

  • Published 1986
  • Fiction
  • 576 pages
4.0
one reader
  • Alex4

In brief

Non linear narrative, semi-autobiographical novel about a British Spy who disappears after his father's death

From the publisher

Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets.

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From Wikipedia

A Perfect Spy (1986) is a novel by British author John le Carré about the mental and moral dissolution of a high-level intelligence officer. Major aspects of the novel are lifted from the life of the author, including the relationship between the protagonist, Magnus Pym, and his father Rick Pym.

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