Writer Nick Harkaway expands his father John le Carrs spyverse in new thriller The Taper Man
LONDON (AP) — Britain is wracked with anxiety about national decline, Russians are meddling, and relations are strained with the U. K. 's American cousins. Cold War tensions with modern parallels ripple through “The Taper Man,” a new spy thriller set in the world created by the late John le Carré, and written by his son, Nick Harkaway. The novel sends British spymaster George Smiley to the U. S. in 1965, chasing a Soviet agent and negotiating a culture clash with “The Cousins,” le a...
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