John Le Carre 
Silverview 
2021 Penguin Viking
Limited First Edition First Impression
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David John Moore Cornwell 1931 – 2020, better known by his pen name John le Carré was a British author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. "[One] of the greatest novelists of the post-war era", during the 1950s and 1960s he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He is considered to have been a "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer"

Le Carré's third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller, was adapted as an award-winning film and remains one of his best-known works. This success allowed him to leave MI6 to become a full-time author. His novels which have been adapted for film or television include The Looking Glass War (1965), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979), The Little Drummer Girl (1983), The Night Manager (1993), The Tailor of Panama (1996), The Constant Gardener (2001), A Most Wanted Man (2008), and Our Kind of Traitor (2010). Philip Roth said that A Perfect Spy was “the best English novel since the war”.

According to his son Nicholas, le Carré took Irish citizenship shortly before his death while retaining his British citizenship. His close friend and neighbour, Philippe Sands, said that at his memorial there was "an Irish flag - and only an Irish flag".

Silverview is a novel by British writer John le Carré, published posthumously on 12 October 2021. The book was completed for publication by his son Nick Cornwell. In the afterword, he noted that the process was "more like retouching a painting than completing a novel." He also speculated that his father refrained from publishing it sooner because it “does something that no other le Carré novel ever has. It shows a service fragmented: filled with its own political factions, not always kind to those it should cherish … and ultimately not sure, any more, that it can justify itself.”

Silverview centres on a young bookseller, an enigmatic Polish immigrant, and a British agent hunting down a leak. At just over 200 pages, it is the shortest le Carré novel since A Murder of Quality in 1962. In 2021, Penguin Audio released an audiobook version, read by Toby Jones.