John le Carré's The Circus: Losing Control (2025-)

The daily operations of The Circus continue, a silent machine protecting Britain’s most vital secrets. At its center, the figure known as Control is absent. His office is empty, his schedule abandoned. Only his assistant, Maggie, is aware of the void at the top. With a critical mission in Vienna imminent, she must navigate the protocols and passwords she knows by heart, questioning whether this disappearance is a catastrophe or one of Control’s own designs. Trust is now a liability. Inside the hushed corridors, the machinery of intelligence grinds on without its director, its stability dependent on a single person maintaining the illusion of command.