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A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose- to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors- an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend. So delicat ...Show more
A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim h ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants t ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
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 further ...Show more
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 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
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
Little Drummer Girl The by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist.The Little Drummer Girlis a thrilling, deeply ...Show more
Our Game by John le Carré
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Le Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry - dreamer, diss ...Show more
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.What else ...Show more
Single and Single by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier h ...Show more
Smiley's People by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
The murdered man had been an agent - once, long ago. But George Smiley's superiors at the Secret Service want to see the crime buried, not solved. Smiley will not leave it at that, not when it might lead him all the way to Karla, the elusive Soviet spymaster . . . Smiley's People is a thrilling confron ...Show more