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John le Carre A Perfect Spy
Pocket Books 0671042750 / 9780671042752 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Good
0671042750 Editorial Reviews n nFrom Publishers Weekly nLe Carre's new novel overshadows The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and his other bestsellers. The author's intense feelings, linguistic artistry and stinging wit draw the reader into the story of Magnus Pym, traitor. Epic in scope and length, the narrative moves backward and forward in time, recording crises-ridden events from the viewpoints of numerous characters. Primarily, the revelations are in an epistle Pym addresses to his young son Tom. The writer is holed-up in a remote country cottage where he tries to explain his crimes to the boy before pursuers find him. For years a trusted agent in British Intelligence, Pym has been giving England's and America's vital secrets to a contact in Czechoslovakia. Now Jack Brotherhood, the spy's mentor in the honorable organization, sadly agrees with colleagues that Pym is guilty. The proof is his disappearance, coincidental with data gushing from CIA computers and sent by U.S. agents to their opposite numbers in London. Determined to minimize the damage of Pym's treachery and create a coverup if possible, Brotherhood takes charge of a team searching for the betrayer. As the lives of everyone involved in this netherworld of espionage become tragically immediate to the reader, Le Carre again masterfully chronicles the dangerous game-playing world of international espionage. 350,000 first printing; BOMC main selection. nCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. n nFrom Library Journal nLe Carre's latest commences with the sudden disappearance from his posting and family in Vienna of elegant British master-spy Magnus Pym. The narrative immediately splits and alternates: one voice, dubious, insistent, tells of the diligent and urgent race among ex-agent wife Mary, co-worker Jack Brotherhood, and ubiquitous Czech agent "Sergeant Pavel" to find the possible defector; the other voice (Pym's own), ruminative, wry, relates the colorful history and amoral motivations behind the successful spy. By the time the two voices converge in the present, the comprehensive character Pymas seen by others and by himselfstands alone, ready to carry out his decision. Not a spy novel in the usual sense, then, but a skillfully manipulated, complex, and probingly written study spiced with lively anecdotes. To be savored. BOMC main selection. Rex E. Klett, Anson Cty. Lib., Wadesboro nCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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John Le Carre Constant Gardener
Coronet 034073339X / 9780340733394 PAPERBACK Very Good
034073339X Editorial Reviews n nAmazon.com Review nBritish diplomat Justin Quayle, complacent raiser of freesias and doting husband of the stunning, much younger Tessa, has tended his own garden in Nairobi too long. Tessa is Justin's opposite, a fiery reformer, "that rarest thing, a lawyer who believes in justice," whose campaigns have earned her a nickname: "the Princess Diana of the African poor." But now Tessa has turned up naked, raped, and dead on a mysterious visit to remote Lake Turkana in Kenya. Her traveling companion (and lover?), the handsome Congolese-Belgian doctor Arnold Bluhm, has vanished. So has Quayle's complacency. n nTessa had been compiling data against a multinational drug company that uses helpless Africans as guinea pigs to test a tuberculosis remedy with unfortunately fatal side effects. Her report was destroyed by her husband's superiors; was she? It's all somehow connected to the sinister British firm House of ThreeBees, whose ad boasts that it's "buzzy for the health of Africa!" John le Carré symbolically associates ThreeBees with an ominous buzz in the Nairobi morgue: "Over [the corpses], in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note." n nThe home office tries to take Quayle in out of the cold. He cleverly eludes their clammy embrace, turns spy, and takes off on a global chase to avenge Tessa and solve her murder. Le Carré has lost none of his gift for setting vivid scenes in far-flung places expertly described: London, Germany, Saskatchewan, Kenya. His sprinting thriller prose remains in great shape. And thanks to his 16 years in the British Foreign Office, his merciless send-up of its cutthroat intrigues and petty self-delusions is unbelievably good--or rather, believably so. This is global do-gooder satire on a literary par with Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark. n nBut you want to know if The Constant Gardener is as good as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Very nearly. Africa's nightmare is more complex than the cold war chess match, and the world pharmaceutical circus is tougher to dramatize than the old spy-versus-spy-versus-spymaster game. Still, le Carré can write a smart, melancholy page-turner, and his moral outrage (the real subject of his books) burns as brightly as ever. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. n nFrom Publishers Weekly nAs the world seems to move ever further beyond the comparatively clear-cut choices of the Cold War into a moral morass in which greed and cynicism seem the prime movers, le Carr 's work has become increasingly radical, and this is by far his most passionately angry novel yet. Its premise is similar to that of Michael Palmer's Miracle CureDcynical pharmaceutical firm allied with devious doctors attempts to foist on the world a flawed but potentially hugely profitable drugDbut the difference is in the setting and the treatment. Le Carr has placed the prime action in Africa, where the drug is being surreptitiously tested on poor villagers. Tessa Quayle, married to a member of the British High Commission staff in corruption-riddled contemporary Kenya, gets wind of it and tries in vain to blow the whistle on the manufacturer and its smarmy African distributor. She is killed for her pains. At this point Justin Quayle, her older, gentlemanly husband, sets out to find out who killed her, and to stop the dangerous drug himselfDat a terrible cost. Le Carr 's manifold skills at scene-setting and creating a range of fearsomely convincing English characters, from the bluffly absurd to the irredeemably corrupt, are at their smooth peak here. Both The Tailor of Panama and Single & Single were feeling their way toward this wholehearted assault on the way the world works, by a man who knows much better than most novelists writing today how it works. Now subject and style are one, and the result is heart-wrenching. (Jan. 9) Forecast: Admirers of the author who may have found some of the moral ambiguities and overelaborate set pieces of his last two books less than top-drawer le Carr will welcome a return to his best form. There is a wonder
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Le Carre, John Ein Mord erster Klasse. Roman.
Luebbe Verlagsgruppe 3404104544 / 9783404104543 PERFECT_PAPERBACK Good
3404104544 Kurzbeschreibung nIn einem englischen Eliteinternat untersucht George Smiley, warum die Ehefrau eines Professors gewaltsam zu Tode kam. Mit seinen Ermittlungen sticht er in ein Wespennest - fast jeder hätte ein Motiv für den Mord. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels. n nÜber den Autor nJohn le Carre, am 19. Oktober 1932 in Poole, Dorset, geboren, war nach dem Studium in Bern und Oxford in den sechziger Jahren in diplomatischen Diensten u.a. in Bonn und Hamburg tätig. Mit "Der Spion, der aus der Kälte kam" begründete er 1963 seinen Weltruhm als Bestsellerautor, der durch die darauffolgende Smiley-Trilogie gefestigt wurde. Zuletzt erschien im List Verlag sein Roman "Absolute Freunde". John le Carre lebt mit seiner Frau in Cornwall. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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John Le Carre El Espia que Surgio del Frio
Plaza and Janes Editores, S.A. 8401499755 / 9788401499753 PAPERBACK Very Good
8401499755 Biography nAny spy novelist working today must contend with the legacy of John le Carr?, and it's a rare author who earns comparison with the master. Le Carr?'s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and his trilogy starring British intelligence hero George Smiley and nemesis Karla are classics of Cold War literature, but the closing of that era has not left le Carr? at loose ends: His later novels have departed for new milieus with no sacrifice of intrigue.
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John Le Carre El Jardinero Fiel / The Constant Gardener (Spanish Edition)
Distribooks Inc 8484508811 / 9788484508816 PAPERBACK Good
8484508811 Biography nAny spy novelist working today must contend with the legacy of John le Carr?, and it's a rare author who earns comparison with the master. Le Carr?'s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and his trilogy starring British intelligence hero George Smiley and nemesis Karla are classics of Cold War literature, but the closing of that era has not left le Carr? at loose ends: His later novels have departed for new milieus with no sacrifice of intrigue.
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Carre, John Le El Sastre de Panama
Nuevas Ediciones de 8484500586 / 9788484500582 PAPERBACK Very Good
8484500586 Editorial Reviews - El sastre de Panama (The Tailor of Panama) n n nMeet the Writer - El sastre de Panama (The Tailor of Panama) n n nFact File n n nName: nJohn le Carré n nAlso Known As: nDavid John Moore Cornwell (real name) n nCurrent Home: nCornwall and Hampstead, England n nDate of Birth: nOctober 19, 1931 n nPlace of Birth: nPoole, Dorsetshire, England n nEducation: nAttended Bern University, Switzerland, 1948-49; B.A. in Modern Languages (with honors), Oxford, 1956 n nAwards: nDagger Award (British Crime Writers' Association) for The Honourable Schoolboy, 1977; Edgar Award for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1965 n n nBiography n n nTo categorize John le Carré as a writer of espionage thrillers is not so much inaccurate as it is restrictive. Certainly, his spy novels are the gold standard against which all others are compared, but he writes with such literary elegance and philosophical complexity that his readership extends far beyond genre fans. n nWhat we know of this famously taciturn author's life comes from official records (date of birth, education, marriages, etc.) and whatever biographical tidbits he has seen fit to divulge. He was born David John Moore Cornwell in England in 1931. His mother deserted the family early on, and his father (a charming con artist) floated in and out of jail. Cornwell attended the universities of Berne and Oxford, taught school for a while, then joined the British Foreign Service in 1959 at the height of the Cold War. From there, he was recruited into M16, the UK's secret service. (On his website, he self-effacingly claims to have "spent a few ineffectual but extremely formative years in British Intelligence.") n nAlthough his spying career ended abruptly when British double agent Kim Philby blew his cover to the KGB, Cornwell was still working for M16 when he began writing novels. He adopted the nom de plume John le Carré for his first book, 1961's Call for the Dead, whose memorable first chapter introduced British intelligence officer George Smiley. Quiet, mild-mannered, and morally complex, Smiley offered a stark contrast to James Bond, the glamorous jet-setting spy of Ian Fleming's popular pulp novels. He would also turn out to be the most famous of le Carré's fictional creations. n nLe Carré's debut was well received, but it was his third novel, 1963's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, that proved to be his breakthrough book. This suspense classic recounts the harrowing story of a burnt-out operative, desperate to retire, who is given one last, perilous assignment. Embodying le Carré's cynical, morally ambiguous view of Cold War espionage, the novel won rapturous reviews (Graham Greene called it "The best spy story I have ever read."), received a Gold Dagger and an Edgar Award, and was turned into an award-winning motion picture starring Richard Burton. n nThe Cold War may have ended, but its demise has done nothing to diminish the power of Le Carrés novels. He continues to craft thrillers filled with intrigue, if not espionage; and his books continue to deeply satisfy readers around the world. n n nGood To Know n n nLe Carrés sister is British actress Charlotte Cornwell, who describes him as "the best brother ever." n n nThe author's most autobiographical novel is 1986's A Perfect Spy, dealing with his tangled relationship with his mostly absent father. n n nIn September of 2008, an interview appeared in The Sunday Times in which le Carré was [mis]quoted as saying that he had considered defecting to the Russians during his stint with M16. In fact, in his conversation with the interviewer, he had admitted to nothing more than curiosity about life on the other side of the Iron Curtain. "I wasn't tempted ideologically," he says.
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Carre, John Le La canción de los misioneros
Debolsillo 8483465019 / 9788483465011 Hardcover Good
8483465019 Über den Autor nJohn LeCarre (eigentlich David John Moore Cornwell), geb. 1931 in Poole/England. 195658 tätig als Lehrer in Eton. 1959.64 in diplomatischen Dienst in Bonn und Hamburg. Veröffentlichungen von Spionage-Romanen, die ihn bekannt machten.
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John Le Carre Most Wanted Man
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 0340977094 / 9780340977095 PAPERBACK Very Good
0340977094 Editorial Reviews nFrom Publishers Weekly nWhen boxer Melik Oktay and his mother, both Turkish Muslims living in Hamburg, take in a street person calling himself Issa at the start of this morally complex thriller from le Carr? (The Mission Song), they set off a chain of events implicating intelligence agencies from three countries. Issa, who claims to be a Muslim medical student, is, in fact, a wanted terrorist and the son of Grigori Karpov, a Red Army colonel whose considerable assets are concealed in a mysterious portfolio at a Hamburg bank. Tommy Brue, a stereotypical flawed everyman caught up in the machinations of spies and counterspies, enters the plot when Issa's attorney seeks to claim these assets. The book works best in its depiction of the rivalries besetting even post-9/11 intelligence agencies that should be allies, but none of the characters is as memorable as George Smiley or Magnus Pym. Still, even a lesser le Carr? effort is far above the common run of thrillers. (Oct.) nCopyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From The Washington Post nFrom The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Not satisfied, apparently, with continuing to write his generally first-rate novels, John le Carr? has now taken to reviewing them as well. On the front cover of the advance edition of A Most Wanted Man is reproduced a letter from the great man addressed to Dear Reader: New spies with new loyalties, old ones with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the good, sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, & remain good 'patriots' -- I'm pleased with the way this novel turned out. Best, John le Carr?. So what, after that, is the mere reviewer to do? Were he or she to say, perhaps, that John le Carr? has written an interesting new novel about decent people wanting to do good, but trapped in moral dilemmas, readers would say that this interpretation merely parrots and paraphrases le Carr?'s, and they would be right. One of the reviewer's tasks, after all, is to interpret a book as well as to pass judgment on it, but in this instance, le Carr? has done all our interpreting for us, and has even tacked on the judgment that he is jolly well happy about what he has written. Probably, his self-satisfied little note was written for booksellers rather than reviewers, but since it has landed in the laps of reviewers as well, it has the feeling of a pre-emptive strike. There's just one problem. Though le Carr?'s interpretation of his novel's themes is accurate enough, his judgment of its literary worth is considerably inflated. As one who has reviewed his work for more than three decades, always with admiration and at times with unfettered enthusiasm, I'd place A Most Wanted Man toward the lower end of the 21 novels he has now written. It is intelligent, of course, and immensely informative about espionage and the people who engage in it, but its prose occasionally is flabby (especially when the heroine is involved), the feelings its central characters have for each other are utterly unconvincing, and it ends on a note of clich?d, knee-jerk anti-Americanism that I find repellent. Now in his late 70s, le Carr? perhaps has earned the right to phone a novel in, and phoned-in is what this one is. It is set in Hamburg: Nobody was likely to forget, be he Muslim, police spy or both, that the city-state of Hamburg had been unwitting host to three of the 9/11 hijackers, not to mention their fellow cell-members and plotters; or that Mohammed Atta, who steered the first plane into the Twin Towers, had worshiped his wrathful god in a humble Hamburg mosque. A young Chechen Muslim calling himself Issa, stateless, homeless, an ex-prisoner and illegal, shows up at the modest residence of Leyla Oktay and her son Melik, immigrants from Turkey who are in the city on temporary res
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