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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

Mentre il mondo festeggia il terzo anniversario della perestrojka, da Mosca una giovane donna, Katja, trova il modo di far giungere a Londra un manoscritto esplosivo. Segreti militari che potrebbero cambiare il corso della storia, indirizzati a Barley Blair, uno scalcinato editore inglese pluridivorziato, gran bevitore, appassionato di jazz, sassofonista dilettante. Barley capisce di essersi cacciato suo malgrado in un delicatissimo intrigo dal quale può uscire solo scoprendo l'identità e le intenzioni dell'autore del manoscritto. Si trova così arruolato nei Servizi Segreti britannici, ma i tempi stanno cambiando e così pure gli eroi. In questo scenario a Barley non resta altro che ascoltare le voci del cuore: nonostante i matrimoni falliti, crede ancora nell'amore e negli ideali. E in Katja sembra aver trovato entrambi... Un thriller, una storia di spionaggio e passioni tra le più amate di le Carré; un romanzo che è anche un ritratto della Russia post-sovietica e degli oscuri personaggi che si muovevano tra i rottami della cortina di ferro.

Issa, jeune musulman russe affamé, arrive clandestinement à Hambourg... Avec Annabel, avocate idéaliste, et Tommy Brue, patron de banque, ils forment un triangle amoureux sur lequel vont fondre les e

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.

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

An official tie-in edition of Shakespeare''s great tragedy to accompany the major new film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.''Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble''Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.

'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

'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women, who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author's extraordinary engagement with the last half-century. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of this country's greatest writers. "No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times." (Guardian). "John le Carre is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen." (Financial Times). "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).

Nom de code: Paul Anderson. Mission: surveiller l’enlèvement d’un acheteur d’armes djihadiste à Gibraltar. Récompense: un titre de noblesse et une retraite dans les Cornouailles. Objectif véritable:

Dima es el alma de la mafia rusa. Desde su tiempo como prisionero en el gulag, se abrió camino hasta la cima. Su especialidad: el lavado de dinero. Sin embargo, sus días están contados. Tiene enemigos entre los compañeros de poder. Con el fin de asegurar la supervivencia de su familia, hace un pacto con Occidente. Ofrece su conocimiento a cambio de una vida en Inglaterra. El servicio secreto britanico esta de acuerdo. Sin embargo, los agentes se encuentran con una resistencia amenazante. El largo brazo de la mafia llega lejos en el Oeste. ¿Por cuanto tiempo es Dima puede engañar a sus amigos rusos? Nuestro tipo de traidor es una novela apasionado de la corruptibilidad del Oeste y en la fragilidad de la democracia.

''Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I''m sitting now.'' From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carre is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he''s writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire, or visiting Rwanda''s museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, or celebrating New Year''s Eve with Yasser Arafat, or interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in his The Constant Gardener, le Carre endows each happening with vividness and humour, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carre gives us a glimpse of a writer''s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters.