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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.

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. Now, decades later, the Cold War is over and the war on terror has begun. Sasha has another mission for them both, but this time it is impossible to tell the difference between allies—and enemies.

Nat hat seine besten Jahre als Spion hinter sich. Gerade ist er nach London zu seiner Frau zurückgekehrt, da wird ihm ein letzter großer Auftrag erteilt. Zur Erholung spielt Nat montags Badminton, seit neuestem gegen Ed, einen jungen Mann, der den Brexit hasst, Trump hasst, auch seine Arbeit in einer seelenlos gewordenen Medienagentur. Und ausgerechnet Ed fordert Nat auch außerhalb des Spielfelds heraus und zwingt ihn, seine Haltung gegenüber dem eigenen Land und seinem bisherigen Leben infrage zu stellen.

Die wahnwitzige Geschichte um eine innerdeutsche Verwicklung mit Folgen - von Weltbestsellerautor John le Carré! Westdeutschland, auf dem Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges. Herr Koorp, ein anständiger Kaufmann, pflegt ein gefälliges und selbstzufriedenes Dasein in Lübeck. Dann erhält er einen Anruf von seiner Schwester im fernen Ostdeutschland. Der gemeinsame Vater sei unzeitig verstorben. Dessen letzter Wunsch? In Lübeck begraben zu werden, ausgerechnet!

Dolmetscher Bruno Salvador wird vom Britischen Geheimdienst für eine inoffizielle Konferenz zum Thema Kongo engagiert. Die krisengeschüttelte und an Rohstoffen reiche Region ist Brunos Heimat. Bahnt sich in dem fernen Land eine Katastrophe an? Bruno sucht Verbündete, die mit ihm für eine demokratische Zukunft des Kongo streiten. Doch plötzlich wird er zum Gejagten, denn in seinem Besitz befinden sich wertvolle Dokumente.

With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappears, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and Southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left....

In der britischen Kolonie Gibraltar findet eine streng geheime Anti-Terror-Operation statt: Ein islamistischer Waffenkäufer soll entführt werden. Die Drahtzieher: Fergus Quinn, ein hochrangiges Regierungsmitglied, und Jay Crispin, Chef einer internationalen Sicherheitsfirma. Toby Bell, ein Mitarbeiter Quinns, stolpert über die geheime Aktion. Irgendetwas ist an der Sache faul und soll vertuscht werden. Seine Nachforschungen bringen ihn in eine gefährliche Lage.

The Night Manager (Abridged): In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Our Kind of Traitor (Abridged): Set in contemporary, recession-gripped Britain, a left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Single & Single (Abridged): A corporate lawyer from the house of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand.

The never-before-seen correspondence of John le Carré, one of the most important novelists of our generation, are collected in this beautiful volume. During his lifetime, le Carré wrote numerous letters to writers, spies, politicians, artists, actors, and public figures. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author's humor, generosity, and wit—a side of him many listeners have not previously seen.

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.

Tim Cranmer—a former British intelligence officer spending his early retirement on his Somerset estate—and Larry Pettifer—bored radical don, quixotic philanderer, and Cranmer’s double agent during the Cold War—are old friends with an unresolved rivalry that stretches back decades. When Larry, now a professor at Bath University, disappears with some £37 million and Tim’s young mistress, Emma, Tim finds his supposedly tranquil life brought to a screeching halt.

When a corporate lawyer from the London finance house of Single & Single is executed in Turkey without an inkling as to why, it triggers a series of events that threaten to bring an international crime syndicate to its knees. The murder also pulls one Oliver Hawthorne from his life as a children's magician in Devon, stripping away any illusion of normalcy thrusting him back into the world of corruption run by one of the eponymous Single's: charismatic financier and money launderer, Tiger Single. Tiger also happens to be Oliver's father.

Julian Lawndsley har opgivet sit prestigefyldte job i London og har slået sig ned som boghandler i en lille engelsk kystby. Men en aften, kun et par måneder efter karriereskiftet, får Julian besøg. Edward, en polsk emigrant, der bor i Sølvblik, det store hus i udkanten af ??byen, ved en hel del om Julians familie og er ualmindeligt interesseret i hans lille boghandel. En spionchef i London modtager et brev, der advarer om en faretruende lækage, og hans efterforskning fører ham til den stille kystby.

The beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered near Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. And her putative African lover and travelling companion has vanished from the scene of the crime. Tessa’s husband, a career diplomat and amateur gardener at the British High Commission in Nairobi, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. On his way he meets terror, violence and conspiracy, but his greatest discovery is the woman he barely had time to love.

John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley. Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter from Mrs Stella Rode, saying that she fears her husband - an assistant master at Carne School - is trying to kill her. Reluctant to go to the police, Miss Brimley calls upon her old wartime colleague, George Smiley. Unfortunately, it's too late.

"It’s an emergency, George. You remember Vladimir? George, are you awake? You remember the old General?" The phone call that dragged George Smiley, acting Chief of the Circus, from his bed was a plea to return to active service. But only to bury the case, not to solve it...

Harry Pendel, tailor and spy, decides to take matters into his own hands by deceiving everyone and masterminding a scheme so brilliant that his life careens into a deadly game of politics and deception, in a humorous and fast-paced thriller. 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.

In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness. His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via Northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world.

In John le Carré's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Set in contemporary, recession-gripped Britain, 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.

A corporate lawyer from the house of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood 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. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder.