John le Carre

Secret agent Leamas is on a mission in East Berlin, but he has doubts about the organization he serves.

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Featuring an introduction by the author, this is a paperback reissue of the debut novel that introduces one of the most popular characters in espionage fiction: George Smiley.

Call for the Dead

Smuggled into Hamburg, Issa, a young Russian man carrying a large amount of cash, forms an alliance with Annabel, a civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, scion of a failing British bank, as they become victims of rival intelligence operations in the War on Terror.

A Most Wanted Man

Now retired from the British Secret Service, former spy George Smiley agrees to do a favor for an old friend and investigates the mysterious demise of the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School. But Smiley gets more than he bargains for and is plunged headlong into a labyrinth of skeletons and hatreds.

A Murder of Quality

Follows the fates of fellow ex-spies Ted Mundy and Sasha, as they attempt to change their lives and the world in which they live, chronicling their exploits from West Berlin, through the politics of Cold War Europe, to the present day.

Absolute Friends

British security officer Alan Turner battles radical German students and neo-Nazis after an embassy flack disappears from Bonn with dozens of top secret files.

A Small Town in Germany

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Focuses on a former military espionage department in London and its attempts to train an agent for a mission in East Germany.

The Looking Glass War

JOHN. WELLS

In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love.

Silverview

Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carré's return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, where he hears things not meant for his ears - and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscience. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, THE MISSION SONG recounts Salvo's heroically naïve journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness. "A ragingly readable adventure tale. . . . Every issue of today is here: class warfare, race, torture, immigration, language. But THE MISSION SONG is also a tender love story, a fast-paced thriller, and a story with as many brilliant minor characters as major. Like another favorite of mine, The Constant Gardener, it 'gets' the centrality of Africa to our world today." -Salon

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The Mission Song

Israeli intelligence agent Kurtz--aka Schulman, aka Gold, aka Raphael--assembles a private army to trap the most dangerous Palestinian terrorist, a trap that perilously involves a brilliant, young English actress. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Little Drummer Girl

Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. A master chronicler of the deceptions and betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carré portrays, in The Constant Gardener, the dark side of unbridled capitalism. His eighteenth novel is also the profoundly moving story of a man whom tragedy elevates. Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and ineffectual bureaucrat, seemingly oblivious to his wife's cause, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love. The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.

The Constant Gardener

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John Le Carre

New York Times bestselling author John le Carré's novels deftly navigate us through the intricate shadow worlds of international intrigue with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A lawyer from a London finance house is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician in the English countryside is asked to explain the arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. In Single & Single, le Carré masterfully establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. He tells of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. He also paints an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son.

Single & Single

CALL FOR THE DEAD and A MURDER OF QUALITY

Nat, un veteran al Serviciului Secret de Informații din Marea Britanie, crede că anii săi de muncă în cadrul agenției s-au încheiat. Dar MI6 are alte planuri. Pentru a face față amenințărilor din ce în ce mai mari ale Centralei din Moscova, Nat este numit la conducerea Limanului, o subdirecție defunctă aflată sub egida Direcției Generale Londra, o groapă de gunoi pentru transfugii și informatorii de mâna a cincea. Însă Nat nu e doar un spion redutabil, ci și un împătimit jucător de badminton. Partidele sale săptămânale cu Ed, un tânăr singuratic și introvertit, care urăște Brexitul, pe Trump și își detestă jobul la o companie de media, îi oferă singurele momente de respiro de la noul loc de muncă. Ceea ce nu știe însă Nat este că tocmai Ed va declanșa un șir de întâmplări care-i vor conduce pe toți cei implicați într-un adevărat vârtej de evenimente cu ramificații politice internaționale. Pe serviciul adversarului este un portret lipsit de compromisuri al epocii noastre, plin de tensiune și de umor, un roman scris cu talentul și verva-i bine cunoscute de către cel mai mare cronicar al vremurilor noastre. „Un exemplu de măiestrie narativă. O poveste clară, compactă, conținând cantitatea perfectă de răsturnări de situație și piste false. Loialități împărțite, mobiluri incerte, agenți ruși, conflicte birocratice interne, spioni blazați, birouri dărăpănate – toate ingredientele pe care le doriți și le așteptați de la un thriller marca John le Carré sunt reunite aici.“ THE TIMES „Le Carré oferă o poveste demnă de epoca noastră, asezonată cu amestecul clasic de trădare, manevre cu secrete de stat și fragilitate umană înduioșătoare... Pe serviciul adversarului nimerește drept la țintă, atât la nivel psihologic, cât și politic; e o întruchipare desăvârșită a thrillerului britanic de spionaj de cea mai bună calitate.“ OBSERVER „O carte substanțială, splendid scrisă, presărată cu o mulțime de surprize. Arta narativă ține de magie, iar le Carré este marele ei maestru.“ SPECTATOR

Pe serviciul adversarului

Op de Rots van Gibraltar wordt in het diepste geheim een antiterrorisme-operatie met de codenaam Wildlife voorbereid. Het doel is om een belangrijke jihadistische wapenhandelaar op te pakken. Het plan wordt gesmeed door een ambitieuze minister van Buitenlandse Zaken en een bevriende privélegerleider. De operatie is zo broos dat zelfs de secretaris van de minister, Toby Bell, er niet bij betrokken is. Toby vermoedt een rampzalige samenzwering en probeert deze te verijdelen, maar hij wordt prompt overgeplaatst naar het buitenland. Drie jaar later zorgt een boodschap uit het dodenrijk ervoor dat hij in contact komt met Kit Probyn, destijds betrokken bij Wildlife, en dan moet Toby kiezen tussen zijn geweten en zijn trouw aan de Dienst. `John le Carré behoort tot de allergrootsten van de misdaadliteratuur. Elvin Post, Algemeen Dagblad `Een nieuwe John le Carré is een literaire gebeurtenis van wereldformaat. de Volkskrant John le Carré is geboren in 1931 en studeerde aan de universiteiten van Bern en Oxford. Tijdens de Koude Oorlog werkte hij enige tijd bij de Britse Inlichtingendienst. Le Carré werd wereldberoemd met zijn spionagethriller Spion aan de muur (1963). Dat succes bevestigde hij met onder meer De lokvogel, De kleermaker van Panama, De toegewijde tuinier, Absolute vrienden en Ons soort verrader. Aangeschoten wild wordt verfilmd door Anton Corbijn.

Een broze waarheid

When British intelligence agent Magnus Pym disappears, two desperate searches are initiated--the hunt of agents, East and West, for the missing spy and Pym's own quest to uncover the mysteries of his own past.

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