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A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Magnus Pym, high-ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on- for a missing husband, a devoted father and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of ...Show more
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unrelia ...Show more
A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré
Category: Fiction
Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on- for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym's life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of sev ...Show more
A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: George Smiley Novels Ser.
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unrelia ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020 by John le Carré, John le Carre
Category: Biography Memoir
A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to his final yearsA Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
Category: Biography
A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final yearsJohn le Carre was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Priv ...Show more
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré
Category: Biography
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood, to the Cold War to his final years John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation. He also had an extraordinary life. A Pr ...Show more
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets clos ...Show more
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 the ...Show more
Absolute Friends by John le Carré
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
'One of his most enthralling creations' Daily Telegraph Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend who took him from radical 1960s Berlin to life as a double agent. No ...Show more
Absolute Friends by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties an ...Show more
Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 ...Show more