John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (UK 2020)

From the Publisher:
Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own.

Described by le Carré as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780241337301 (February, 2020), 672 p., £14.99.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own.

Described by le Carré as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Penguin Classics, ISBN: 9780241322482 (September, 2018), 672 p., £8.99, eBook £7.49.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend- and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father's death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad moustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus?

In A Perfect Spy , John le Carré has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces, interweaving a moving and unusual coming-of-age story with a morally tangled chronicle of modern espionage.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. A Novel. With an Introduction by the Author. Penguin, ISBN: 9780143119760 (July, 2011), 400 p., $16.00.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent.

Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets.

Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each other and time itself, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy...

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Sceptre, ISBN: 9780340937655 (September, 2006), 608 p., £7.99.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
Magnus Pym, Britain's premier spy, has vanished -- sending intelligence communities on a frenzied international manhunt. As the search plays out, so does a chain of clandestine operations surfacing in Washington, Vienna, Prague, London, and Berlin. But the most powerful drama of all comes from exploring Pym's background -- his education as a spy, and the spectacular motives and mentors who transformed him into a master of guile and deception.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Scribner's, ISBN: 0743457927 (December, 2002), 590 p., $17.00.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each other and time itself, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy...

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 0340733659 (July, 2001), 704 p., £17.99.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
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 aunprecedented worldwide acclaim.

Magnus Pym, Britian's premier spy, has vanished -- sending intelligence communities on a frenzied international manhunt. As the search plays out, so does a chain of clandestine operations surfacingin Washington, Vienna, Prague, London, and Berlin.

But the most powerful drama of all comes from exploring Pym's background -- his education as a spy, and the spectular motives and mentors who transformed him into a master of guile and deception.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671042750 (April, 2000), 675 p., $7.99.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent.

Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets.

Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each other and time itself, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy...

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Sceptre, ISBN: 0340766506 (September, 1999), 704 p., £6.99.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
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 unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Immersing readers in two parallel dramas -- one about the making of a spy, the other chronicling his seemingly imminent demise -- le Carré offers one of his richest and most morally resonant novels. Magnus Pym -- son of Rick, father of Tom, and a successful career officer of British Intelligence -- has vanished, to the dismay of his friends, enemies, and wife. Who is he? Who was he? Who owns him? Who trained him? Secrets of state are at risk. As the truth about Pym gradually emerges, the reader joins Pym's pursuers to explore the unsettling life and motives of a man who fought the wars he inherited with the only weapons he knew, and so became a perfect spy.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Coronet, ISBN: 0340393130 (May, 1994), 607 p., £4.99 (?).

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
He is Magnus Pym, charming, enigmatic, a star player in 'The Great Game' of British intelligence. He is a man of spectacjular gifts whose sudden, mysterious disappearance devastates his family, friends and colleagues, while shattering the fragile foundations of covert spy networks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. John le Carré's brilliant new masterwork explores the very essence of espionage itself, inerweaving the gripping story of a desperate international manhunt with the compelling history of a complex and tortured life. Here is a stunning tale of obligation and betrayal... and of the irresistible forces that cruelly play on the human flaws of a perfect spy.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553264567 (July, 1990), 517 p., $6.99.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
He is Magnus Pym, charming, enigmatic, a star player in 'The Great Game' of British intelligence. He is a man of spectacjular gifts whose sudden, mysterious disappearance devastates his family, friends and colleagues, while shattering the fragile foundations of covert spy networks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. John le Carré's brilliant new masterwork explores the very essence of espionage itself, inerweaving the gripping story of a desperate international manhunt with the compelling history of a complex and tortured life. Here is a stunning tale of obligation and betrayal... and of the irresistible forces that cruelly play on the human flaws of a perfect spy.

John le Carré: A Perfect Spy. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553264567 (April, 1987), 517 p., $4.95.