FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRE
"This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist.... What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal land[...]
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 biographer Ada[...]
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 biographer Ad[...]
In John le Carre'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 Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua[...]
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 C[...]
Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest a[...]
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful tr[...]
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys 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. As Smiley probes furt[...]
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of [...]
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 i[...]
The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carre's masterful creation George Smiley, published in Penguin Modern Classics. After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently ki[...]
In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. "Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English". (Guardian). "A marvellously observed relentless tale". (Observer). At the sta[...]
Featuring George Smiley, "The Honourable Schoolboy "is the second installment in the renowned Karla Trilogy, the follow-up to the "New York Times" bestselling "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, "which was the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Tom Hardy.
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" You want to catch the lion, first you tether the goat. "
On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England's bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger lures the aspiring actress away from her pals-but his intentions are far from romantic. Joseph is an I[...]
" I have visited Bohemia and got away unscathed. "
Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounter with Shamus-a charismatic writer whose first [...]
"Le Carr's best book, and one of the finest English novels of the twentieth century."
-Philip Pullman
Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend- and the perfect spy. But in t[...]
Featuring George Smiley, this "New York Times "bestseller is the third and final installment in the Karla Trilogy, from the author of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy "and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold " Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman... A very junior agent answers Vladimir's call, but it c[...]
Featuring George Smiley, this "New York Times "bestseller is the first installment in John le Carre's acclaimed Karla Trilogy. From the author of "A Delicate Truth "and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the [...]
Featuring George Smiley, this "New York Times "bestseller is the first installment in John le Carre's acclaimed Karla Trilogy. From the author of "A Delicate Truth "and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the [...]
John le Carre's third novel--A #1 "New York Times" bestseller for 34 weeks--and the book that launched his career worldwide
In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Col[...]
""Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards.""
George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy--which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. W[...]
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "A Delicate Truth" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
""You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous.""
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all thing[...]
"Haven't you realized that only appearances matter?"
The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the[...]