The Huffington Post review

The Spectator review

USA Today review

The New York Times Sunday book review

The Telegraph review

The Times review

The Observer review

'Its fun, range and wisdom lift A Delicate Truth to the upper register of a great writer's oeuvre' Sydney Morning Herald

"…a writer of towering gifts…. le Carré is one of the great analysts of the contemporary scene who has a talent to provoke as well as unsettle" The Independent

The Scotsman review

"… draws on a career's worth of literary skill and international analysis… no other writer has charted the public and secret histories of his times" Mark Lawson, The Guardian

"le Carré takes us back to his favourite scenarios: Whitehall, the secret services, the gentleman’s clubs, dodgy bankers, corrupt public schoolboys and gruesome American neo-cons... This is a late novel revelling once more in that imaginary world of secrets and lies that is le Carré’s gift to us." The Evening Standard

"... writing of such quality that it will be read in one hundred years." The Daily Mail

Rereading: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

Tinker, Tailor is as perfect a spy yarn as one is likely to find and a great novel on top of it.

'Our Kind of Traitor is John le Carre's 22nd 'spy' novel. As the Cold War has faded away his themes have become increasingly globalised and innovative'

'John le Carré has been in the spy fiction business a very long time and is a master of the craft'.

'Our Kind Of Traitor is a very satisfying thriller, combining exquisite pacing with a denouement that has implications far beyond the page'

'Let me be specific: I think the man deserves the Nobel.' - The Globe and Mail

'Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance' - The Sunday Times

'Return of the master.' - The Times

'Le Carré's mission keeps changing, but not his mastery' - Washington Post

''Our Kind of Traitor' confirms that le Carré's work is still the gold standard of espionage fiction' - Seattle Times

'The breakneck pace of Le Carré's narrative in the race to see whether Dima and his family will find safe haven never falters nor does the author's evocation of the contemporary immorality of international finance.' - LA Times

'Le Carré's pages are full of sharp insights and quick bits of information, of nuance and crosshatching, backstory and foreshadowing.' San Francisco Chronicle

'A compelling tale of deceit, dialogue and the author's own despair' - The Telegraph

'Bullet train of a new thriller' - The New York Times

'I would suggest immortality for John le Carré.' - Chicago Tribune

'Trust Le Carré to make his story of international money laundering, political infighting and unwitting treachery into a chamber symphony of exquisite delicacy.' - Kirkus