The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
A tipsy cabaret dancer from the Picratt nightclub entered the police station and excitedly announced that she had heard two men at the next table in the bar conspire to kill a countess, an unknown countess.
John le Carré's fourth spy novel, which depicts the intelligence struggle during the Cold War in an ironic and pessimistic way. The novel deconstructs the romantic image of secret agents by showing the decay and illusions of the old British intelligence g