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Author: John Le Carre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Keywords: house, russia
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1994-05-05
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0340511214
ISBN-13: 9780340511213

When London publisher Barley Blair receives an important smuggled document from Moscow, the English spymasters are forced to use him to establish the document’s veracity. His collusion with Katya, the Moscow intermediary, may represent the way of the future, to the distaste of espionage professionals on both sides.

Author: John le Carre
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: spy, perfect
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743457927
ISBN-13: 9780743457927

John le Carre’s classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Immersing readers in two parallel dramas -- one about the making of a spy, the other chronicling his seemingly imminent demise -- le Carre offers one of his richest and most morally resonant novels. Magnus Pym -- son of Rick, father of Tom, and a successful career officer of British Intelligence -- has vanished, to the dismay of his friends, enemies, and wife. Who is he? Who was

Author: John Le Carre
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: cold, spy
Published: 1984-06-01
List price: $4.50
ISBN-10: 0553264427
ISBN-13: 9780553264425

From the author of THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and SMILEY’S PEOPLE, a thriller about an intelligence agent who has decided to put his life of espionage behind him, but first there is one more dangerous assignment to accomplish.

Author: John le Carre
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: cold, spy
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743442539
ISBN-13: 9780743442534

It would be an international crime to reveal too much of the jeweled clockwork plot of Le Carré’s first masterpiece, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. But we are at liberty to disclose that Graham Greene called it the "finest spy story ever written," and that the taut tale concerns Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin. Leamas is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive, but East Germans start killing them, so he gets called back to London by Control, his spy master. Yet instead of giving Leamas the boot, Control gives him a scary as

Author: John le Carre
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: spy, soldier, tailor, tinker
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743457900
ISBN-13: 9780743457903

John le Carré’s classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A modern masterpiece in which le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley’s chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into th

Author: John le Carre
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: cold, spy
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0802714544
ISBN-13: 9780802714541

A new hardcover edition of the book Graham Greene called “the best spy story I have ever read.” On its publication in 1964, John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carré combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence with the skills of the best novelists to produce a story as taut as it is twisting, unlike any previously experienced, which transports anyone who reads it back to the shadowy years in the early 1960s, when the Berlin Wall went up and the Cold War came to life.The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Author: John le Carre
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: friends, absolute
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2004-11-10
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0316159395
ISBN-13: 9780316159395

An absolutely triumphant bestsellereverywhere hailed as the masterpiece toward which John le Carr has been building since the fall of communism. This epic tale of loyalty and betrayal spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is the thrilling work of international espionage that le Carr fans have long awaiteda brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the ages.
  
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