Magnus Pym – ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent – has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own.
Devastating BBC drama of le Carré's most autobiographical novel. When Ray McAnally (playing Rick Pym, le Carré's monstrous fictional father) visited the author in London, he entered the room in character and le Carré was rendered almost speechless with admiring horror. Superb and harrowing.
Nominated for five BAFTA awards and two Emmy awards.
'On a par with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People ... makes another very impressive addition to the television record of le Carré exploration. Gloomy and disturbing, to be sure, but singularly absorbing.'
