Dear Reader

Welcome to BookCrossing and thanks for being a part of World Book Night 2011, the largest book giveaway in history. 1,000,000 specially printed copies of 25 different books changed hands on March 5th 2011 and began their journey from reader to reader. This book is one of them. World Book Night has joined with BookCrossing to help track these books as they travel. You can be a part of that journey by making a comment in the book's journal here on BookCrossing. Your journal entry can say how you got the book, what you thought of it, your plans for it or whatever else you might like to add.

On BookCrossing you may choose to remain anonymous or join (it's free). If you join, you’ll be alerted by e-mail each time someone makes another journal entry for this specific copy of this book (other copies of the book are travelling with their own ID number. Every copy of every book has a unique ID). It’s all confidential (you’re known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address) and spam-free.

Thanks in advance for being part of World Book Night and BookCrossing. And happy reading and sharing.

This book is being released via BookCrossing on 5 March 2011 as part of the inaugural World Book Night. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with libraries, World Book Day and the BBC, one million books will be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.

Read and release!

I registered for this book for World Book Night, and I'm selfishly dedicating this copy To Me, so I can enjoy it again before liberating it.
Thank you so much WBN for the opportunity!

The original spy book - heartily enjoyable - I hope you do to!

Bij de boekenplank onder de trappen - geniet ervan!

Thank you for catching this book! Please let us know that you've found the book and where you might re-release it when you're done. You don’t *have* to read it, though!
You may remain completely anonymous if you choose. The site is totally free, there are no strings and most importantly, no spam involved. If you choose to join up, I hope you will consider using me, microsquid, as the one who referred you.
After/If you've read the book; make another journal entry on the book called 'release notes' to let me know where you're letting it go to continue its journey. (You'll be part of it's journey from that point on, too).
I hope you have as much fun with BookCrossing as I do.
Happy reading!

I've always enjoyed John Le Carré but haven't had the time recently to be able to sit and work through his thicker tomes, so this one was just right for a holiday read.

It starts with an agent and spy-master pensioned off from "The Circus" after taking to the bottle when an operation goes badly wrong, and from that moment on he really goes to seed. You glimpse various events in flashbacks, but what really happened? Just as you start to piece things together, the plot unfolds in an unexpected way. Who is he really?

PS. Dear Microsquid, I admit that I've had this on Mt.TBR for a while, but not 4 years . . .

Left on the book exchange shelves at the New Brewery Arts Centre Café

See http://www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/cafe