A Perfect Spy: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by John Le Carré

A Perfect Spy is a spy thriller that pulls you in right away. The narrator is British, which adds a sense of realism to the story. John Le Carré tells this story through an unnamed protagonist. The protagonist's wife dies and he goes back to his old life as a spy for the British government.

A Perfect Spy is the book that made John Le Carré an international bestseller. The plot focuses on Alec Leamas, a spy who has been declared persona non-grata by his own side, who is left with only one way to survive: to become a double agent. The story follows the two sides of his life as events in the spy business take him from a successful career at MI6 to placing himself in a Moscow jail cell.

The book opens in Tunis, with English diplomat Sandy Smith on assignment from the Foreign Office. The rest of the action takes place in Berlin, London and Cyprus, where Sandy is working as a spy for MI6. The novel deals with themes of secrecy and subterfuge, set against the background of Cold War Europe.

In the novel, a British spy is recruited to work for a new intelligence agency in East Berlin. He goes undercover as an East German and finds himself doing various tasks for 'The Circus', which are his employers.

Michael Jayston is the narrator of this audiobook. He has a soothing voice which makes it easy to listen to and enjoy through the whole story. He narrates the story with such ease that you don't have to be paying attention for long to know what is happening.

"What do you want?" I asked her. "I want the past," she said, "not to be a self-conscious abstraction but to be real."