West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files..
Tessa Quayle, moglie di un diplomatico inglese appassionato di giardinaggio, viene trovata selvaggiamente uccisa sulle rive del lago Turkana in Kenya. Perché Tessa era là? Il suo omicidio è da legarsi alla sua ossessiva presenza in un ospedale di Nairobi, dove in circostanze misteriose una povera indigena aveva trovato la morte? Nel contemplare il corpo decomposto dal caldo della bellissima moglie, qualcosa si spezza nell'animo di Justin Quayle, un marito che solo ora inizia a scoprire che nulla sapeva di Tessa.
In The Night Manager, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers.At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John le Carr creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.Le Carr is the equal of any novelist now writing in English GuardianA marvellously observed relentless tale Observer Complex and intense ... page-turning tension San Francisco ChronicleWhen I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carr ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind Aung San Suu KyiOne of those writers who will be read a century from now Robert Harris
Enter the new world of espionage, where the skills forged by generations of spies during the darkest days of the Cold War are put to even more terrifying use. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is an untouchable Englishman named Roper, the charming, unstoppable ruler of a corrupt world all his own. Slipping into this maze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knows Roper well enough to hate him more than he hates any other man on earth. Now personal vengeance is only part of the reason Pine is willing to help the men at Whitehall bring Roper down.
En esta novela, el maestro del género de espionaje reúne a sus personajes más célebres y pasa revista a sus casos más importantes.El escenario de este apasionante recuento es la cena de fin de curso de la academia del servicio secreto britanico, encargada de formar a los mejores espias
From the author of THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, SMILEY'S PEOPLE and THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, a tale of espionage in which George Smiley embarks on a mission to catch a Soviet mole who has been
