“There are people we should never betray, no matter the cost. I do not belong to that category.” Julian Lawnsley has left a successful career in the City to live a simpler life as a bookseller in a small seaside town in England. It has only been two months since Julian's new beginning when a visitor comes to disturb his peace. 

Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the large house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and shows an excessive interest in his humble bookstore. When a letter reaches the hands of a director of the secret services in London warning him of a dangerous leak, his investigations lead him to this quiet seaside town… 

Silverview is the charming story of a clash between innocence and experience, between public duty and private morality. In the last completed masterpiece of our greatest chronicler, John le Carré questions what one owes to their country when they have ceased to recognize it.