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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a classic spy novel written in 1974 that feature’s one of the author’s beloved fictitious characters George Smiley. George is a resourceful but seldom speaking Intelligence officer, who has been forced into retirement in previous installments by the author, but has to now return to help the government because of the freshly developed dire circumstances. There is a mole amidst the highly accomplished ‘Circus’, one of the most elite units of the British secret intelligence service, and it is up to George to help the government figure out which highly trained agent is working for the Russians. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is filled with suspense and espionage and is a thrilling tale till the final page. The story is highly detailed and is revealed to the reader using a series of flashbacks. The cat and mouse game ensues right from the get go with some of the most intelligent minds trying to figure out which amongst them does not belong in the agency. This Film-tie edition was published by Sceptre Publishing in 2011 and is available in paperback. Key Features: This is the latest film tie-in edition of the classic spy novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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Agent Running In The Field
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 substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarchs with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: The introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent running in the field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heart-breaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.
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The Pigeon Tunnel
The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat in war-torn Beirut to brilliantly observed encounters with the great figures of 20th century film, from Stanley Kubrick to Alec Guinness. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of the world's greatest writers.
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A Delicate Truth
A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. 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 delicate is the operation that even the Minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.
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Our Game
With the Cold War over, British spymaster Tim Cranmer had hoped for a quiet new life with his alluring Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmers star double agent and lifelong rival Larry Pettifer disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, into the lawless, battered landscapes of Russia.
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A Most Wanted Man
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. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client’s survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa’s mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a work of deep humanity, and uncommon relevance to our times.
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Absolute Friends
An absolutely triumphant bestseller - everywhere hailed as the masterpiece toward which John le Carrý has been building since the fall of communism. This thrilling tale of loyalty, betrayal, and international espionage 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 uncertain new alliances - alliances that aren't always what they seem to be.
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The Constant Gardener
John le Carre's exquisite new novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle. Her husband, Justin, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive, and what he learns makes him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for his wife's killers. A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In THE CONSTANT GARDENER he unfurls a profoundly moving story of a man elevated through tragedy as Justin Quayle, amateur gardener and cautious bureaucrat, discovers his own resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.