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...SECRET PILGRIM by John le Carre (Knopf; $21.95). So what if these related tales seem like outtakes from a story that has already been told? They are exciting reminders of Le Carre's fictional saga of postwar British intelligence, and best of all, they include the reappearance of George Smiley...
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...that arc of Ned's memory is essentially the plot of The Secret Pilgrim. The novel has no grand, tantalizing design; the individual adventures that Ned remembers are chiefly connected by the fact that he took some part in them. Readers familiar with Le Carre's multi-volume fictional saga of postwar British intelligence will see in Ned's recollections a series of outtakes from a story that has already been told...
Good reasons exist for hoping that Smiley is wrong, although writers and readers of espionage thrillers may confess to mixed emotions on the matter. In the meantime, The Secret Pilgrim bridges a gap between the recent past and the unforeseeable future. No longer able, because of the innate honesty that has characterized his storytelling career, to offer a full-blown cold war drama, Le Carre pops out some discrete and satisfactorily chilling ice cubes...
...Muslim pilgrims, a high point of the hajj to Mecca is the trek to Jamarat al 'Akaba in Mina, one of the three stoning points of Satan. Each passing pilgrim must cast pebbles at this rock pillar in a ritual that symbolizes the faithful's struggle against evil. At 10 a.m. last Monday the believers suddenly faced a more earthly trial...