This is the complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's bestselling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively or[...]
John le Carre is still at the top, more than half a century after The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became a worldwide bestseller. From his bleak childhood - the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by 'sixteen hugless years' in the dubious care of his father, a serial-seducer and [...]
THE CONSTANT GARDENER Tessa Quayle--young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin--is gruesomely murdered in northern Kenya. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect, but also a target for Tessa's killers[...]
From the "literary master for a generation" ("The London""Observer") comes a fiercely com-""pelling and current novel set in Hamburg that plays to all of le Carre's trademark strengths-- Germany, rival intelligence operations, and sympathetic protagonists who discover a taste for moral integrity.A h[...]
The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers.
George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.
The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement ar[...]
On 10 CD's. Mr George Smiley is small, podgy, and at best, middle-aged. He is disillusioned, wrestles with idleness, and has been deserted by his beautiful wife. He is also compassionate, ruthless and a senior British intelligence officer in short-lived retirement from the Circus the British Secret [...]
Now a major film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright--the acclaimed bestselling novel about spies in "The War on Terror."
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount o[...]
The acclaimed bestselling novel about spies in "The War on Terror"--now a major motion picture starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final roles. The film, coming in summer of 2014, also stars Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with ol[...]
The definitive biography of the internationally adored author of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," and "A Perfect Spy" arguably one of the most important and influential writers of the post-World War II period by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biograph[...]
In this definitive biography blessed by John le Carre himself Adam Sisman reveals the man behind the bestselling persona. In John le Carre, Sisman shines a spotlight on David Cornwell, an expert at hiding in plain sight born to lying, he wrote in 2002, bred to it, trained to it by an industry that l[...]
An expos of what the author believes to be the pharmaceutical industry's exploitative drug trials in the global south charges that big pharmaceutical companies covertly engage in unethical drug testing practices in regions of the world where there are minimal regulations and large numbers of despera[...]
John le Carre (b. 1931) is the pen name of David Cornwell. Under that pseudonym he has become the leading writer of contemporary spy thrillers. Tremendously popular and deeply influential, his novels feature a level of psychological depth and narrative complexity that makes them as rewarding as the [...]
A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed "Wildlife," is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a sha[...]
A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed "Wildlife," is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a sha[...]
The migration of stem cells has been found to be critical during early development for the organization of the embryonic body as well as during adult life with tissue homeostasis and regeneration of organ function. Due to the low frequency of these cells in vivo, problems in identifying and prospe[...]
John le Carre has been called "simply the world's greatest fictional spymaster" ("Newsweek") and "one of the half-dozen best novelists now working in English" ("Chicago Sun-Times"). Now, three of his greatest and most genre-defining novels"--""Call for the Dead," "A Murder of Quality," and "The Spy [...]
Aiming to lay bare the act of blatant state terrorism that is the invasion and occupation of Iraq, this book seeks to reveal the extraordinary tapestry of lies, distortions and gross media manipulation that underpin it. It looks at how public opinion is wilfully ignored and "democracy" used as a fig[...]
Tiheäjuoninen, arvoituksellinen ja mukaansatempaava jännitysromaani, jossa liittolaista on vaikea erottaa vihollisesta.Sekä Saksan, Britannian että Yhdysvaltain tiedustelupalvelut kääntävät katseensa Hampuriiin, jossa monet WTC-iskuun osallistuneet terroristit olivat asuneet. Mitä Issa Karp[...]
Hurmaava petturi kertoo nykyhetken Britanniasta, jossa venäläiset oligarkit ja Hänen Majesteettinsa tiedustelupalvelu käyvät kulissientakaista taistoa. Viattomat sivulliset, nuori professori Perry ja tämän menestyvä juristivaimo Gail, kohtaavat Karibian-lomalla kiehtovan venäläisen liikemi[...]
Lontoo. Jossain on vuoto. Brittien tiedustelupalvelun huipulla on mitä ilmeisimmin kaksoisagentti, on ollut jo kauan. Kuka on myyrä?[...]
George Smiley ei pysty antamaan anteeksi sitä, että Moskovan vakoilukeskuksen pelätty Karla huiputti Britannian tiedustelupalvelua perusteellisesti. Hän janoaa kostoa. Kun Smiley ja hänen uskollinen esikuntansa saavat vihiä Euroopasta Kaukoitään ulottuvasta "rahakäärmeestä", jolla Karla r[...]