{"product_id":"2026200016493-secondhand-the-tailor-of-panama","title":"The Tailor Of Panama","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the humid backstreets of Panama City, where secrets are currency and loyalty is always for sale, master spy novelist John le Carré constructs one of his most darkly comedic and politically charged thrillers. The Tailor of Panama chronicles the misadventures of Harry Pendel, a Savile Row-trained tailor with a fabricated past who serves the city's elite — including the inner circle of the Panama Canal's administrators — until British intelligence operative Andy Osnard recruits him as an informant, setting in motion a dangerous spiral of invented intelligence and real-world consequences.\n\nLe Carré argues, with surgical wit, that the greatest threat in espionage is not the enemy agent but the well-meaning liar — a theme that elevates this novel far beyond a conventional spy thriller into a biting satire of Western interventionism and the intelligence community's appetite for the stories it wishes to hear. Drawing explicit inspiration from Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana, le Carré illustrates how fiction, once fed into the machinery of power, can detonate with terrifying force. Sharp, morally complex, and laced with irony, The Tailor of Panama leaves the reader to wonder: in a world built on manufactured truths, who ultimately cuts the cloth of history?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336817516763,"sku":"2026200016493-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8ce4b570-d261-43af-a6f0-083e8edf40c0.png?v=1789958772","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016493-secondhand-the-tailor-of-panama","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}