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In John le Carré''s electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young O

In der britischen Kolonie Gibraltar findet eine streng geheime Anti-Terror-Operation statt: Ein islamistischer Waffenkaufer soll entfuhrt werden. Die Drahtzieher: Fergus Quinn, ein hochrangiges Regierungsmitglied, und Jay Crispin, Chef einer internationalen Sicherheitsfirma. Toby Bell, ein Mitarbeiter Quinns, stolpert uber die geheime Aktion. Irgendetwas ist an der Sache faul und soll vertuscht werden. Seine Nachforschungen bringen ihn in eine gefahrliche Lage. Toby muss sich zwischen seinem Gewissen und der Verpflichtung gegenuber dem britischen Geheimdienst entscheiden.

Khalil, un misterioso y audaz terrorista, mantiene en jaque a los servicios secretos israelíes... La acción arranca tras la masacre de Munich y recrea la época más activa del terrorismo palestino.

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good.Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carre has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carre has given us a novel of superb and enduring quality.

When the Department _ faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles _ hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place The Cold War is at its height and the Department is dying for a piece of the action...

Um jovem russo com um sobretudo preto comprido e meio morto de fome é introduzido clandestinamente em Hamburgo pela calada da noite. Numa bolsa que usa pendurada ao pescoço esconde uma quantia improvavel de dinheiro. E um muçulmano devoto. Mas sera mesmo? Afirma chamar-se Issa. Annabel, uma jovem e idealista advogada alem especializada em direitos humanos, decide salvar Issa da deportaço, e depressa a sobrevivencia daquele cliente se torna mais importante do que a sua propria carreira. Em busca do misterioso passado de Issa, Annabel enfrenta o incongruente Tommy Brue, o herdeiro de sessenta anos do Brue Freres, um banco britanico em declinio sediado em Hamburgo. Nasce um triangulo de amores impossiveis. Entretanto, pressentindo que vo desferir um tiro certeiro na pseudo Guerra contra o Terror, espies de tres naçes convergem para pessoas inocentes. Comovente, compassivo e recheado de personagens que o leitor no querera largar, Um Homem Muito Procurado esta repleto de humor, apesar da tenso presente ate a ultima, e emocionante, pagina. E igualmente uma obra com uma profunda humanidade e uma pertinencia invulgar nos dias de hoje.

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.

The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence '' the Circus'' all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced by the explosions of change to revisit his secret years. Ned illuminates the brave past of the legendary George Smiley, his hero and mentor who, in one unforgettable evening, gives back to him the dangerous edge of memory that empowers him finally to frame the questions that have haunted him for thirty years ...

The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful of dirty money and dirtier politics.

Alec Leamas, el antiguo responsable del espionaje inglés en Alemania Oriental, tiene una cuenta casi personal que saldar con sus viejos rivales.