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"Battlefield Agent" is a novel published by le Carré in 2019, and it is also his last work during his lifetime. Nat is a forty-seven-year-old British Secret Intelligence Service agent. After years of fighting for the motherland on the underground front in a foreign country, the veteran's field career seems to have finally come to an end. But when our hero returns to London after a long absence, what greets him is a wife who has been emotionally indifferent due to years of separation, a rebellious daughter in youth who is always against him, and an 18th-line local intelligence substation for him to use his spare energy - this is the fate of a veteran. Fortunately, being a spy is not all Nat's life is about - he is also an avid badminton enthusiast. Not long after returning to China, Nat met a young golfer on the club's badminton court who was his equal and met him late. But it wasn't just the two's skills that sparked the sparks. Walking off the court, this young man's warm and sincere idealism touched Nat's half-cold heart. However, when friendship beckons to spies, danger is not far away. Nat will soon discover how this year-end rendezvous will involve him in unexpected ways and into a huge trouble.

The sequel to the classic spy novel "The Spy in Berlin"; a work that "redefines the moral dimension of spy novels"; a reflection and look back by former MI5 intelligence officer/writer Le Carré. This is the exploration and confession of a former British agent who has disappeared into the smoke and dust on the narrow road of memory. In awakening and interrogating the truth of the old crime - an espionage operation code-named "Wind Fortune" against the East German intelligence agency - he recalled how those men who often played the evil Romeo in their careers stole the hearts of those poor girls and took them to the slaughterhouse; he recalled how these intelligence officers who were not born with a harder heart fought to the last lie, but did not always survive. The light and dark aspects of the espionage career, as well as the hard-to-define good and evil of human nature, are also revealed; and the moral dilemma they faced after the end of the Cold War of being liquidated and being punished by the orphans of the Cold War made the protagonist try to reflect on the "legacy" of these spies and become a witness who reveals the truth of the times. This book is the sequel to Le Carré's classic "The Spies in Berlin". Many character relationships return and multiply in this puzzle composed of investigations, declassified documents, and private memories. "According to the definition of the British Official Secrets Act, whether he is alive or dead, George Smiley cannot be discussed." However, the protagonist of this book finally makes the core of the golden generation of "Fixers" - Smiley appear. At this point, the "Smiley Trilogy" series that established Le Carré's status as a literary master came to an end.

Smiley's love, Guillam, lives a comfortable secluded life in France, but his past as a spy still clings to him, and a secret letter urgently calls him back to London. Guillam was shocked to find that what he needed to face this time was not the enemy, but the descendants of his colleagues who fought side by side in the past - their father and mother had names that intelligence officers could not forget: Leamas and Liz. In the out-of-control espionage incident that year, one was an intelligence agent who was loyal to the Intelligence Bureau, and the other was his lover. Both of them died under the Berlin Wall. What led to their deaths? Was Yuanchang deliberately "abandoning his son", or was there another hidden agenda? Deep in Guillam's private memories that are inconsistent with official records, there are secrets that he does not want to reveal...

"Conjuring the Dead" is the debut novel by the British literary master John Le Carré. The classic character and legendary spy George Smiley, who runs through Le Carré's spy novels, makes his debut in this book. The novel tells the story of Samuel Finnan, a Foreign Office official who died after leaving a suicide note after Smiley's routine questioning. However, an appointment reminder phone call and a letter from the deceased proved that the truth was not as simple as suicide. The case was full of doubts, and the people involved died inexplicably. Smiley risked his life and was attacked by a sneak attack. When the intricate clues gradually became clear and the story came to mind, Smiley was trapped in the eternal mystery of love and people's hearts, and he didn't know where to go... In the works of Le Carré, the king of spy novels and a master of characterization, George Smiley has become a classic character in the history of British literature comparable to Sherlock Holmes. In addition to interpreting wonderful spy stories, this character also shows a level of humanity and depth that cannot be matched by ordinary novels.

"We have two kinds of memory, small memory and big memory. We use small memory to remember small things, and use big memory to forget big things." - "German Town". In ten days, the fate of Britain's power in Europe will be determined. At this moment of chaos, a humble German archivist at the British Embassy in Bonn suddenly disappears, and the relevant confidential documents in the embassy also disappear for no reason. After the Allied partition and occupation of Germany ended, national consciousness was on the rise, neo-Nazis were ready to move, and anti-British sentiment was growing. In a situation of fire and water, Britain secretly assigned Turner, a capable officer, to find the truth. However, during the investigation, the biggest obstacle Turner faced was his own people? ! And will the disappearance of an archivist and the secrets he carries affect the future of Europe?

"I thought I was a fighter for the truth, but I didn't want to but became an admirer of lies." A confiding letter from an ordinary woman who cared about her daughter led to the murder of an old general and a double informant who had been lurking in the center of the Soviet Union. The two fought desperately to protect two pieces of evidence, and asked someone to tell Smiley that everything was about creating a legend for a girl. The old woman's daughter, the general's goddess, Kara's lover, Kara's daughter, who is she?

The famous Korean director Park Chan-wook directed a spy drama for the first time. The original work of the high-scoring British drama "The Drummer" in 2018 is a "Lust, Caution" staged against the background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli spy chief Martin Kurz recruits a radical left-wing British actress, Charley, in order to assassinate Palestinian terrorist Khalil - a terrorist leader who has long targeted Jews in Europe and carried out bombings. After a series of preparations, Charlie finally integrated into the Palestinian terrorist organization... Faced with the fictional lover and experience, Charlie's conscience and morality swayed between the two nations, and her deep-rooted moral values ​​have also been torn to pieces. Which side is just? As a double female agent who is fragile and longs for love, how should she make a choice?

Death is hesitating on a fork in the road; survival is crueler than fate; this is the spy's helpless bet. After discovering a double agent lurking in the British intelligence organization, Smiley was ordered to rectify the British Intelligence Agency, which had lost its vitality, and vowed to fight back. He peeled off the cocoon and followed the clues to learn that the Soviet intelligence leader Kara was carrying out mysterious activities in the East. He immediately sent his right-hand "honor students" to track down...

Three tattered handwritten notebooks, a beautiful and smart Soviet editor, and a British alcoholic publisher who is addicted to jazz and lives in the streets, can actually make people from both the East and the West turn their backs and go to the world and sea to investigate an incident that is difficult to distinguish between true and false? ! "Moscow Lovers" faithfully reflects the international pulse of the late 1980s when the Cold War was about to collapse. It is the product of le Carré's visit to the Soviet Union. It is both fiction and reality. Through le Carré's sometimes sarcastic and humorous, sometimes profound and touching writing style, we are guided to follow the story line and follow the characters in the book to experience suspenseful and tense historical events, feel their complex mentalities of inner conflict when facing personal choices, and share their love and hope brewing under the shell of the Cold War.

Having been a spy all his life, Leamas knew that the intelligence network he had run in East Germany had been wiped out. He was unwilling to retire. The latest operation planned by British intelligence seems to be Leamas's last chance to save face and defeat his lifelong nemesis. However, Leamas thought he could return from the cold, but instead stepped into the biting winter. In order to survive this severe winter, in addition to burning his own hot blood, he must also burn love and his most precious trust... John le Carré, formerly known as David Cornwell, was born in England in 1931. At the age of 18, he was recruited by the British military intelligence unit to serve as a spy for East Berlin. After retiring, he studied modern languages ​​at Oxford University, and then taught French and German at Eton College. In 1959, he entered the British Foreign Office and began writing at the same time. He became famous in one fell swoop with his third book "The Spies in Berlin" and established his status as a literary master.