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New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love or pity and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carre's fiercely compelling and current novel "A Most Wanted Man." A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career -- or safety. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance -- and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, "A Most Wanted Man" is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.

John le Carre's A Delicate Truth is a furiously paced story of moral dilemma, bold action and unexpected love. Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be - or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Probyn's beautiful daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent? `When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre ...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 Kyi). `One of those writers who will be read a century from now`. (Robert Harris). `If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller`. (Evening Standard). John le Carre was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation, which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. His recent novels include The Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor.

En 2008 tuvo lugar una operaci#n secreta antiterrorista en Gibraltar. La versi#n oficial fue que todo sali# bien: a#os despu#s se descubre que no fue exactamente as#. En Gibraltar, la m#s preciada colonia del Reino Unido, se organiza una operaci#n contraterrorista cuyo nombre en clave es Fauna. Su finalidad: capturar y secuestrar a un valios#simo traficante de armas yihadista. Sus autores: un ambicioso ministro del Foreign Office, junto con un contratista de defensa privado que, adem#s, es #ntimo amigo suyo. Tan delicada es la operaci#n que ni siquiera el asistente personal del ministro, Toby Bell, tiene acceso a ella. Sospechando que existe una conspiraci#n desastrosa, Toby intenta impedirla, pero se le asigna inmediatamente un destino en el extranjero. Al cabo de tres a#os, emplazado por sir Christopher Probyn, diplom#tico brit#nico jubilado, en la decr#pita casona de este en Cornualles, y vigilado de cerca por Emily, la hija de Probyn, Toby debe elegir entre la conciencia y su deber para con su servicio. Si lo #nico necesario para el triunfo del mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada, #c#mo puede quedarse en silencio?

Vuelve El espía que surgió del frío, la novela que catapultó a John le Carré a la fama mundial, en una nueva edición que incluye una introducción del autor con motivo del 50º aniversario de su publicacion.El agente doble Alec Leamas esta hastiado. Ha pasado demasiado tiempo en el frio, escondido en las sombras del telon de acero espiando para el gobierno britanico, donde ha visto morir a demasiados compañeros. Y decide aceptar la ultima mision que Control le ha encomendado desde Londres para vengar a aquellos que cayeron. Debera viajar al corazon de Alemania Oriental para convertirse en peon de un enrevesado complot de venganza; un trabajo que llevara a cabo con la cinica profesionalidad que le ha convertido en uno de los mejores espias. Pero pronto descubrira que ha escogido el peor camino posible...Le Carre es uno de los mejores escritores que hay.Vanity FairEl retrato de un hombre que ha vivido tanto tiempo en la mentira y el subterfugio que ha olvidado como contar la verdad.TimeEscrita con una claridad elegante e inclemente. El espia que surgio del frio es mas que un thriller excelente.TimePuede comunicar la emocion,desde el miedo sofocante al amor desesperado, con una conviccion concisa y compasiva.Sunday Times

Splendid ... le Carr shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling The TimesAldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his soothing existence is upended when he meets Shamus and Helen - a dazzling, bohemian couple who are everything he is not. As he is drawn into their reckless and unpredictable orbit, all that Cassidy thought he understood about his orderly life begins to unravel.Told with le Carrs lacerating wit and penetrating observation, The Naive and Sentimental Lover is an acerbic satire of middle-class hypocrisies.Le Carr is the equal of any novelist now writing Guardian

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Le Carré delivers a tale for our times . . . a demonstration of the British spy thriller at its unputdownable best' Robert McCrum, Observer ________________________________ Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age. _______________________________ 'A rich, beautifully written book studded with surprises. Narrative is a black art, and Le Carré is its grandmaster' Andrew Taylor, Spectator 'Blisteringly contemporary . . . Each new book from le Carré is refreshingly different and uniquely compelling' Economist 'A very classy entertainment about political ideals and deception . . . laced with fury at the senseless vandalism of Brexit and of Trump. Le Carré is the master of the spy genre'

Premier volume de la trilogie mettant en scène George Smiley, agent des renseignements britanniques. Il est chargé par Control, son chef vieillissant, de débusquer la taupe, un agent double à la sold

John le Carré was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the penname.

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John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the penname._____'The symbiosis of author and editor, father and son, has resulted in a brilliant book, le Carre's final masterpiece' 5*, Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph_____A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the 'chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry-eyed British lords' at Eton. It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the flowering of his career as a novelist in reaction to the building of the Berlin Wall. Through his letters we travel with him from the Second World War period to the immediate moment in which we live. We find le Carre writing to Sir Alec Guinness to persuade him to take on the role of George Smiley, and later arguing the immorality of the War on Terror with the chief of the German internal security service. What emerges is a portrait not only of the writer, or of the global intellectual, but, in his own words, of the very private, very passionate and very real man behind the name.

John le Carrs second novel is an ingenious puzzle featuring his best-loved character George Smiley. Now available in a collectors hardback edition.Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. Smiley knows that Stella feared her husband would murder her, but as he probes further beneath Carnes respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his second George Smiley novel, le Carr moves outside the world of espionage to reveal the secrets at the heart of another particularly English institution. The result is a pitch-perfect murder mystery, with Smiley as master detective.THE SECOND GEORGE SMILEY NOVELBeautifully intelligent, satiric and witty Daily Telegraph

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseriesHe is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panamas most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his handlers dont realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, hell weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start to spin out of control, Harry is suddenly in over his headthrown into a lethal maze of politics and espionage, with unthinkable consequences. . . . Praise for The Tailor of PanamaEntertaining . . . a riotous, readable novel . . . A worthy successor to Graham Greenes most wicked entertainments.The New York TimesRiveting . . . Le Carre has cut another masterpiece.Los Angeles TimesWhat makes le Carre the reigning grand master of espionage fiction? . . . Craft, certainly; he maintains an almost magnificent control of material, pace, dialogue, characterization.The Baltimore SunBrilliant . . . Le Carre remains fair in front of his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive.Publishers Weekly (starred review)