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Good-natured drifter Anthony Cade seeks a bit of adventure and quick cash when he accepts a messenger job from a friend. Tasked with delivering the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher, Anthony quickly finds himself entangled in an international conspiracy that puts his life at risk. The memoirs hold more than just scandalous royal secrets; they contain letters suggesting blackmail, linked to efforts to prevent the restoration of the monarchy in Herzoslovakia. Virginia Revel, a captivating woman, is at the center of the turmoil, having lost her husband and a foreign prince, both of whom died under mysterious circumstances. A bungling blackmailer also meets a grim fate. As murder, blackmail, and a missing jewel intertwine, Scotland Yard and the Surete are drawn into the chaos. All clues lead to Chimneys, a historic English estate, where a master murderer lurks among aristocratic guests. Virginia turns to Anthony for help, hoping he can prove her innocence and end her nightmare, while fearing she may have entrusted her life to someone with ulterior motives.

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British secret Service Agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, and old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husbad is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School, was already dead. So George Smiley went to Carne to listen, ask questions, and think. And to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprised that little English institution.

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