A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré is the most recent (2017) after a long long gap in the George Smiley series - although from what I've read in a review, it features a younger main protagonist, Peter Guillam. It has dropped to $4.99 at Kindle Canada as part of their 11th day of Christmas, so almost certainly for today only. You need to make sure you are in the Kobo Canada store before the link/pricing will work.
link:
https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/a-legacy-of-spies-1
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The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book—his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience for its justifications.
Interweaving past and present so that each tells its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carré and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters, old and new.
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