Not a good start to the “reading one book per week” as it took me longer than a week to read the first one (I finished it a few days ago) and I had a head start. But it was almost 600 pages.

It was a very good book, but at times a little lengthy in the descriptions of certain events. It centers around Magnus Pym, a British spy who (after the death of his father) leaves his wife and job and disappears to his own safe house by the sea to write his life story that he always wanted to write. The British secret service is intent on finding him, as is his wife and the Czech spy he worked with for years. And he is racing to finish his autobiography before they get to him.

The Smiley books by Le Carre are still my favorites…