re-appearance of Harry Palfrey, the Legal Adviser to the British Secret Intelligence Service, who first appeared in The Russia House. Sir Anthony Bradshaw previously appeared in the epilogue of The Secret Pilgrim, in which Leonard Burr also appears as the youthful Chief of the Service. Adaptation On 10 January 2015, production of an adaptation was announced. Directed by Susanne Bier, the six-part serial aired on BBC One in the UK and began airing on AMC in the U.S. in April 2016. The cast includes Tom Hiddleston as Pine, Hugh Laurie as Roper, Olivia Colman as Burr, Tom Hollander as Corkoran, and Elizabeth Debicki as Jed. An Indian streaming series adaption starting Anil Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor was released in 2023 on Hotstar References Novels by John le Carré 1993 British novels British spy novels Hodder & Stoughton books British novels adapted into television shows Novels set in Switzerland Novels set in Cairo