{"product_id":"9781408400906","title":"The Secret Pilgrim","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of John le Carré's last Smiley novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world's second oldest profession is very much alive. Smiley accepts an invitation to dine with the eager young men and women of the Circus' latest intake; and over coffee and brandy, by flickering firelight, he beguilingly offers them his personal thoughts on espionage past, present and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn doing so, he prompts one of his former Circus colleagues into a searching examination of his own eventful secret life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a distinguished cast including Patrick Malahide as Ned, this engrossing dramatisation brings le Carré's masterful novel vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B B C Worldwide Americas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040949027056,"sku":"9781408400906","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408400906_p0.jpg?v=1763719895","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408400906","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}