John le Carré is the nom-de-plume of David Cornwell, who was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964. He has written twenty-one novels that have been published in thirty-six languag
An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking 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.
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...
Leamas is finished. Every agent he ran in the field has been remorselessly hunted and killed. It is time to come home, to come in from the cold. But in the moral ambiguities of the Cold War, nothing is ever as it seems - particularly where George Smiley is involved. With its thrillingly effective atmosphere and lean, brilliant prose, John le Carre's breakthrough novel is a suspenseful masterpiece, and a gripping insight into the unforgiving ethics of espionage. With it, he changed the rules of the game, and was rocketed to worldwide fame.
Alex Leamas is tired It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism...
'A work of rare brilliance' The Times Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Henry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks into his shop, Henry's fantastical inventions take on a life of their own. Soon he finds himself out of his depth in an international game he can never hope to win. Le Carre's savage satire on the espionage trade is set in a corrupt universe without heroes or honour, where the innocent are collateral damage and treachery plays out as tragic farce. 'A tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated' The New York Times Book Review
A box set of John le Carré''s exceptional and thrilling first five novels, collected together for the first time:
- Call for the Dead.
- A Murder of Quality.
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
- T
The number one bestselling novel from le Carre, since turned into a critically acclaimed blockbusting film, now reissued in a stunning new package.Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has disappeared.Her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. His quest takes him to the Foreign Office in London, across Europe and Canada and back to Africa, to the depths of South Sudan, and finally to the very spot where Tessa died.On his way Justin meets terror, violence, laughter, conspiracy and knowledge. But his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love.
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.
Bruno Salvador (Salvo), einem brillanten und gefragten Dolmetscher, werden für einen zweitägigen Einsatz stolze 5.000 Pfund angeboten. Das Ziel des Einsatzes ist unbekannt, ebenso die Namen der Teilnehmer, für die Salvador auf einer internationalen Konferenz übersetzen muss. Ein spannendes Spiel mit unbekanntem Ausgang beginnt .... Salvo ist Sohn einer Afrikanerin und eines weißen Missionars. Als solcher hat er viele Sprachen und Dialekte perfekt beherrschen gelernt, doch in den besseren Kreisen auf der Insel stößt er oft auf Ablehnung. In ironisch gebrochener Ich-Erzählung beschreibt er die Erlebnisse bei der Konferenz auf einer Insel mitten in Europa. Dabei geht es um die Aufteilung der von Kriegen, Korruption und Stammesfehden geplagten Republik Kongo. Verhandlungsmasse sind Öl, Diamanten und andere Bodenschätze. Die internationalen Akteure schachern um Macht und Geld, und sie pflegen ihre Eitelkeiten. Salvo ist entsetzt ob der skrupellosen Kungelei und zugleich in einem persönlichen Konflikt: Seine Noch-Ehefrau, eine überdrehte Londoner Journalistin, nervt ihn mit ihren Eskapaden; die neu errungene Freundin ist -- natürlich -- Afrikanerin, jung, attraktiv und der afrikanischen Heimat verbunden. Altmeister John Le Carré beherrscht sein Handwerk noch immer: eine intelligente Story, einprägsame Figuren, Spannung, Witz und eine ausgeprägte Distanz zu den gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen, die er beschreibt. Gekonnt zeichnet der Autor ein ungeschöntes Bild einer fiktiven Welt, die der Wirklichkeit erschreckend nahe kommt. Nicht zuletzt dank eines immensen Rechercheaufwands gelingen ihm einprägsame Bilder von Politik und Gesellschaft, Land und Leuten, Sprachen, Sitten und Charakteren. Über 400 Seiten vermag er den Spannungsbogen zu halten. Und auf den Schluss darf der Leser besonders gespannt sein! --Hans Jürgensen, Literaturtest
