Our Game | John le Carré | kharidobechobooks

Our Game moves away from standard Cold War structures to look at the dangerous, messy landscape of a fragmented, post-Soviet world. [1]

The narrative is told from the perspective of Tim Cranmer, a mid-level British spymaster who gets pushed into early retirement after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Tim retires to a quiet estate in rural England to make wine alongside his beautiful, much younger mistress, Emma. However, the past catches up to him via Larry Pettifer—a chaotic, radically minded university professor who spent twenty years acting as Tim’s double agent. Larry is Tim's ultimate rival, and the tension peaks when both Larry and Emma suddenly vanish. Suspected by his former intelligence masters of orchestrating a conspiracy, Tim goes on the run. The hunter becomes the hunted as Tim tracks his missing lover and double agent across Europe and directly into the lawless, war-torn wilds of southern Russia and the North Caucasus, uncovering a secret plot to fund a violent separatist revolution