Name: The Little Drummer Girl
Rating: 3.5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780553239812

John Le Carré

Charlie, a young English actress, meets a man on a Greek beach who draws her into a world of espionage and terror in the Middle East.

The Little Drummer Girl

John le Carré

Charlie is a promiscuous, unsuccessful English actress in her twenties. Intrigued by a handsome, solitary stranger, she finds herself lured into the “theatre of the real.” For the mysterious man is Kurtz, an embattled Israeli intelligence officer out to stop the bombing of Jews in Europe. Forced to play her most challenging role, Charlie is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist … and soon proves herself a double agent of the highest order.

Not my fave Le Carré — dipping into ethnic caricature here and there, and his writing for women is never the best — but even mid Le Carré has its twisty and dire pleasures.

Andrew

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

The Little Drummer Girl

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