UK First: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996
US First: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996
The fate of nations hinges on an inoffensive bespoke tailor in this archly ironic parable out of Graham Greene. Except for being hopelessly in debt over a rice farm he's unwisely purchased, there's nothing untoward about Harry Pendel, the sole survivor of Pendel & Braithwaite, late of Saville Row. Nothing, that is, except that every detail of Harry's history has been fabricated as lovingly as one of his alpaca suits. Harry's checkered past--a secret even from his proper wife Louisa, daughter of an esteemed American engineer and personal assistant to incorruptible Canal planning advisor Ernesto Delgado--makes him the natural prey of Andrew Osnard, the new man at the British Embassy.
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