The Secret Pilgrim David Dickinson has written a novel which

has written a novel which 'may well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times'

Born the wrong way and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen

Soon after she disappeared

After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings

The Secret Pilgrim David Dickinson has written a novel whichThe Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it