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John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.

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. 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 he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.

A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. 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.... The logical connection of these events and more is one of the many pleasures of this story of love, deceit, family and the triumph of humanity.

The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier’s son born 1947 in a new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, 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 60s, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today’s world of terror. Spanning 56 years, Absolute Friends is a savage fable of our times.

This novel from lauded and bestselling author John le Carré follows Barley Blair, a British publisher, who finds himself unexpectedly entangled in Cold War espionage.

When Tessa Quayle is murdered in northern Kenya, it leaves her husband, career diplomat Justin, searching for answers. Over the course of investigating the circumstances and causes behind her murder, he discovers a drug testing and experimentation scandal that stretches beyond the borders of Kenya. The corruption needed to keep it quiet has taken root in more than one institution he thought he could trust—including the civil servants of the British Foreign Service.

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 17, been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each other and time itself, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy....

Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes. Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshy, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.

Abandoned by his parents, Bruno Salvador has long looked for guidance. He found it in Mr. Anderson of British Intelligence. Working for Anderson in a clandestine facility, Salvo (as he's known) translates intercepted phone calls, bugged recordings, and snatched voice mail messages. When Anderson sends him to a mysterious island to interpret during a secret conference, Bruno thinks he is helping Britain--but then he hears something he should not have.

Das Russlandhaus ist die fesselnde Geschichte des englischen Verlegers Barley, der durch ein Buch mit Aphorismen Goethes, in dem geheime Lagepläne versteckt sind, zum Agenten wird.

À quarante-sept ans, Nat, vétéran des services de renseignement britanniques, est de retour à Londres auprès de Prue, son épouse et alliée inconditionnelle. Il pressent que ses jours comme agent de terrain sont comptés. Mais avec la menace grandissante venue de Moscou, le Service lui offre une dernière mission : diriger le Refuge.

Featuring George Smiley, this New York Times best seller is the first instalment in John le Carré’s acclaimed Karla trilogy. The man he knew as 'Control' is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement - especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence.

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. Seemingly by 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.

1961. L'espion britannique Alec Leamas et son amie Liz Gold trouvent la mort au pied du mur de Berlin. 2017. Peter Guillam, fidèle collègue et disciple de George Smiley dans les services de renseignement autrefois surnommés "le Cirque", est tiré de sa retraite en Bretagne par une lettre de son ancien employeur, qui le convoque à Londres. Pourquoi ? Ses activités d'agent secret pendant la guerre froide le rattrapent. Des opérations qui firent la gloire du Londres secret vont être minutieusement décortiquées par une nouvelle génération qui n'a que faire des luttes menées jadis par les Occidentaux contre le bloc communiste.

The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley. George Smiley had liked the man, and now the man was dead. Suicide. But why? An anonymous letter had alleged that Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan had been a member of the Communist Party as a student before the war. Nothing very unusual for his generation.

2008, Gibraltar : commanditée par les Affaires étrangères britanniques et une société militaire privée américaine, une opération anti-terroriste vise un acheteur d'armes djihadiste. Kit Probyn, diplomate naïf, sera le "téléphone rouge" du ministre, alors que Toby Bell, son secrétaire particulier est étonnamment tenu à l'écart. 2011, Toby est convoqué par un Probyn à la retraite, à deux doigts de dévoiler les dessous de l'affaire, totalement véreuse. Choisira-t-il sa conscience contre sa loyauté envers l'État ?

In this enthralling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, 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.

Einer der fünf Top-Leute des britschen Geheimdienstes muss ein Maulwurf sein, ein Top-Agent des KGB....

Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese province of Kivu, and later at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, Salvo is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages of which, almost from birth, he has been an obsessive collector.

Issa, jeune musulman russe affamé, arrive clandestinement à Hambourg avec les reliques d'un passé mystérieux. Annabel, jeune avocate idéaliste se jure de sauver Issa de l'expulsion. Tommy Brue, patron d'une banque anglaise en perdition détient les clefs de l'héritage interlope du père d'Issa. Ces trois âmes innocentes forment un triangle amoureux désespéré, sur lequel vont fondre les espions de trois nations différentes.