I’m obviously on a bit of a John le Carré kick at the moment as I am currently reading his latest book Agent Running in the Field1. The cover features art by Matt Taylor who has illustrated a quite number of le Carré covers for Penguin Random House and art director Paul Buckley over years. I’ve shared a few of them here before, but since I posted David Pearson’s recent redesign of the George Smiley novels, I thought it would be nice to pull Matt’s versions together too. I believe Gregg Kulick had a hand in the design and type.
Matt has also illustrated the covers for le Carré’s non-Smiley novels too. There’s quite a lot of them!
A Delicate Truth illustration Matt Taylor 
The Naive and Sentimental Lover illustration Matt Taylor 
The Night Manager illustration Matt Taylor 
Our Game illustration Matt Taylor 
Our Kind of Traitor illustration Matt Taylor 
A Perfect Spy illustration Matt Taylor 
The Pigeon Tunnel illustration Matt Taylor 
A Small Town in Germany illustration Matt Taylor 
The Tailor of Panama illustration Matt Taylor
(Matt’s also did an illustration for The Russia House, but only the audio edition of the book appears to be available from Penguin Random House in the US. In the UK, Penguin uses the same illustration for their cover, although the type is in line with their other Modern Classic editions)
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