The Tailor of Panama [Paperback]

Harry Pendel is a charming con man who reinvented himself as Panama City's finest British tailor, stitching bespoke suits for the country's power players while burying his criminal past. When a ruthless MI6 spy walks into his shop hunting intelligence, Harry does what he does best: he fabricates. What starts as harmless embellishment spirals into an elaborate web of lies about political conspiracies and underground resistance movements—fictions that British intelligence takes deadly seriously. John le Carré crafts a darkly comic thriller about the dangerous game of espionage, where invented stories can trigger real catastrophes. Set against Panama's sticky political climate in the lead-up to canal handover, this is le Carré at his most satirical, skewering the intelligence world while delivering genuine suspense. For fans of spy fiction that's more Greene than Bond.