John Le Carré S Post Cold War Fiction

Author : Robert Lance Snyder
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826274120

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John le Carré’s Post–Cold War Fiction by Robert Lance Snyder Pdf

This is an analysis of the first 10 post—Cold Warnovels of one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction. This book challenges distinctions between “popular” and “serious” literature by recognizing le Carré as one of the most significant ethicists in contemporary fiction, contributing to an overdue reassessment of his literary stature. Le Carré’s ten post–Cold War novels constitute a distinctive subset of his espionage fiction in their response to the momentous changes in geopolitics that began in the 1990s. Through a close reading of these novels, Snyder traces how—amid the “War on Terror” and transnationalism—le Carré weighes what is at stake in this conflict of deeply invested ideologies.

Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316000698

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Absolute Friends by John le Carre Pdf

Carre's eloquent indignation at what he sees as a duplicitous war in Iraq and the devious means employed to tarnish those who oppose it is turned into a fictional account of two former spies trying to do right in a post-Cold War world.

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735234536

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A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré Pdf

The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book—his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the 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 him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience for its justifications. Interweaving past and present so that each tells its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carré and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters, old and new.

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143188919

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A Delicate Truth by John le Carré Pdf

2008: A covert counterterror operation code-named Wildlife is to be mounted on the Rock of Gibraltar. This one is right off the books; the target code-named PUNTER. The Brits on land, the American mercenaries by sea. Kit Probyn, an upright Foreign Office veteran with a safe pair of hands and no previous experience of the dark arts, will be the minister’s eyes and ears on the ground. His “red telephone.” Toby Bell, a rising Foreign Office star and the minister’s personal private secretary, has been kept out of the loop. Why? There are whispers of private armies, bounty, dicey intelligence, corporate wars. 2011: A disgraced Special Forces soldier who took part in Wildlife delivers a message from the dead. The worlds of Toby Bell and Kit Probyn collide. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, at what point do these two good men become guilty bystanders?

Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743457927

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A Perfect Spy by John le Carre Pdf

When British intelligence agent Magnus Pym disappears, two desperate searches are initiated--the hunt of agents, East and West, for the missing spy and Pym's own quest to uncover the mysteries of his own past.

Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743442534

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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carre Pdf

Featuring an Introduction by the author, the crowning Cold War masterwork is once again available in a collector's trade edition.

Author : Toby Manning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350036406

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John le Carré and the Cold War by Toby Manning Pdf

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses his work in light of key topics in 20th-century history, including containment of Communism, decolonization, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, the Cambridge spy-ring, the Vietnam War, the 70s oil crisis and Thatcherism. Examining The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979) and other novels, this book offers an illuminating picture of Cold-War Britain, while situating le Carré's work alongside that of George Orwell, Graham Greene and Ian Fleming. Providing a valuable contribution to contemporary understandings of both British spy fiction and post-war fiction, Toby Manning challenges the critical consensus to reveal a considerably less radical writer than is conventionally presented.

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143183006

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Absolute Friends by John le Carré Pdf

An absolutely triumphant bestseller Absolute Friends has been hailed everywhere as the masterpiece toward which John le Carré 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.

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143183051

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The Night Manager by John le Carré Pdf

Either we make you rich or we make you dead. On a bleak January night at the outbreak of the Gulf War, Mr. Richard Onslow Roper, a very special visitor, arrives with his entourage at a Zurich hotel. The night manager, Jonathan Pine, recognizes him immediately—and prays that the identification is not mutual. Welcome to the new era of espionage, where the habits and rules forged in the darkest days of the Cold War are applied to an even more harrowing end. This is Roper's world—a world of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, men whose ruthlessness is matched only by their hunger for unlimited wealth. Enter Leonard Burr, former British intelligence officer turned international policeman. Burr recruits Pine to his cause, and launches him on an undercover odyssey that takes him from Zurich to the desolate coast of Cornwall, and eventually to a village in Quebec where he obtains the identity that will be his tickets of entry to Roper's island hideaway in the Bahamas. In what is perhaps John le Carré's greatest work to day, The Night Manager brings to life a whole new era of intrigue, brilliantly conceived by the undisputed master of the genre.

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143186373

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré Pdf

George Smiley’s deadly game Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole—a Soviet double agent—who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one of their own kind. But who is it?

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524797621

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The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré Pdf

The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies now yield to glasnost and perestroika. The killing shadows of the Cold War are flooded with light. The future is unfathomable. To train new spies for this uncertain future, one must show them the past. Enter the man called Ned, the loyal and shrewd veteran of the Circus. With the inspiration of his inscrutable mentor George Smiley, Ned thrills all as he recounts forty exhilarating years of Cold War espionage across Europe and the Far East—an electrifying, clandestine tour of honorable old knights and notorious traitors, triumph and failure, passion and hate, suspicion, sudden death, and old secrets that haunt us still. Praise for The Secret Pilgrim “Intriguing . . . magisterial . . . The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled. . . . Lucidly and elegantly controlled.”—The New York Times Book Review “Scorching . . . fascinating . . . seductive . . . a dazzler.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . a highly absorbing tale.”—Newsday “Extraordinary.”—USA Today

Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416594895

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A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre Pdf

A half-starved young Russian is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he?

Author : Eleanor Wachtel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106011501944

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Writers & Company by Eleanor Wachtel Pdf

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759508699

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Absolute Friends by John le Carré Pdf

Today, Mundy is a down-at-the-heels tour guide in southern Germany, dodging creditors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once bravely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of an old German student friend, radical, and onetime fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only, answer to life-this time in the form of a mysterious billionaire philanthropist named Dimitri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of poverty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going to the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle Eastern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of starry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than Sasha's, Mundy is inclined to think it could. In Absolute Friends, John le Carre delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that 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. This is the novel le Carre fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the ages.

Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743431675

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Call for the Dead by John le Carre Pdf

Featuring an introduction by the author, this is a paperback reissue of the debut novel that introduces one of the most popular characters in espionage fiction: George Smiley.