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Nick Harkaway, author of Karla's Choice: A Novel of John le Carré's Circus

It is spring in 1963, and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence, the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley soon finds himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come and set him on a collision course with the greatest enemy he will ever make.

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Week of October 20, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of October 20th include THIS BOOK WILL BURY ME by Ashley Winstead, a chilling, compulsive story of five amateur sleuths, whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger as the world watches; Mark Haddon's DOGS AND MONSTERS, a collection of eight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply humane stories that use Greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of love; ROMAN YEAR, a deeply romantic memoir of André Aciman's time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood; Tom Clavin's BANDIT HEAVEN, the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time --- and the lawmen tasked with rooting them out; and the paperback original THE DEADLY BOOK CLUB by Lyn Liao Butler, a twisty thriller in which a virtual book club listens in horror when the screen freezes and one of their members is murdered.

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