Alec Guinness shares his memoirs and describes the people who have shaped his life.

British masterspy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) returns to his old department following the murder of his friend, General Vladimir, a Russian who once worked for British Intelligence.

My Name Escapes Me (Thorndike Press, 1/98), the diaries of Sir Alec Guinness through summer 1996, became an international bestseller. This new volume continues from there.

Revealing the octogenarian spryness of a civilized mind and a beguiling mixture of the meditative and the hedonistic, My Name Escapes Me offers a glimpse of the private side of Guinness's often very public life.

"The result is a charming book of wisdom and reflection, consolation and sheer pleasure, and one that offers an extraordinary insight into the mind of one of the great actors of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.