# The Tailor of Panama

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- Book: [The Tailor of Panama](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre/the-tailor-of-panama) ([The Tailor of Panama.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre/the-tailor-of-panama.md))
- Authors: [John le Carré](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-le-carre)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4129-173-3
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2017-02-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.