Synopsis
Inspired by the true story of Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five spy ring, The Untouchable is a beautifully crafted novel by John Banville, author of the Booker Prize-winning The Sea.
Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After an announcement in the House of Commons and the hasty revelation of his double life of wartime espionage, his disgrace is public, his knighthood...
Details
04 December 2025416 pages
9781035076802Imprint: Picador
Reviews
No novel burrowed deeper beneath my skin than The Untouchable . . . Prose of great elegance, applied to a sardonic narrative, created an atmosphere at once austere, chilling and utterly believable.John Coldstream, Daily Telegraph
Banville is the most intelligent and stylish novelist currently at work in English . . . the mien is austere and Victorian; the awareness, the ironic readings of the contemporary are razor-sharp.George Steiner, Observer
Brilliant displays of power and control . . . magnificently written and, in its exploration of inhumanity, startlingly humane.Alex Clark, Guardian
