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The Pigeon Tunnel

John le Carré
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Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241976869

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRÉ 'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carré has lived a unique life. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's interviewing a German terrorist in her desert prison or watching Alec Guinness preparing for his role as George Smiley, this book invites us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. Best of all, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. 'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian 'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré . . . These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John le Carré
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Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 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?

Silverview

John le Carré
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Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735244474

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Silverview by John le Carré Pdf

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years—the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carré asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognize it.

A Perfect Spy

John le Carre
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Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743457927

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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.

The Secret Pilgrim

John le Carré
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Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 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

Understanding John Le Carré

John L. Cobbs
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Author : John L. Cobbs
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570031681

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Understanding John Le Carré by John L. Cobbs Pdf

John Cobbs establishes that contemporary English novelist John le Carre's fiction transcends the genre of espionage, and that le Carre is preeminently a social commentator who writes novels of manners. Cobbs analyzes each of le Carre's novels and offers a biographical sketch, describing le Carre's often overlooked academic success and reputation as a once member of British Intelligence.

The Outsider

Frederick Forsyth
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Author : Frederick Forsyth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698407121

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The Outsider by Frederick Forsyth Pdf

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever—his own. For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List. Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don’t know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life. He was the RAF’s youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent—well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that’s just for starters. It is a memoir like no other—and a book of pure delight.

Call for the Dead

John le Carre
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Author : John le Carre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 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.

A Private Spy

John Le Carre
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Author : John Le Carre
Publisher : Random House Large Print
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780593632741

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A Private Spy by John Le Carre Pdf

An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving listeners access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time The never-before-seen correspondance 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 humour, generosity, and wit--a side of him many readers have not previously seen.

The Man Who Was George Smiley

Michael Jago
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Author : Michael Jago
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849545570

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The Man Who Was George Smiley by Michael Jago Pdf

Investigator, interrogator, intellectual hero: the perfect inspiration for the perfect spy. This first full-length biography traces the life of the remarkable and engaging John Bingham, the man behind John le Carré's George Smiley. The heir to an Irish barony and a spirited young journalist, John Bingham joined MI5 in 1940; his quiet intellect, wry wit and knack for observation made him a natural. He took part in many of MI5's greatest wartime missions - from the tracking of Nazi agents in Britain to Operation double cross that ensured the success of D-Day - and later spent three decades running agents in Britain against the Communist target. Among his colleagues his skills were legendary and he soon became a mentor to many a novice spy - including one David Cornwell, the later le Carré. Bingham, too, was an innovative writer who perfected the psychological thriller, marrying cold objectivity with an explanation of the darkest reaches of human behaviour. His early novels were applauded but, for all his success, Bingham struggled to match the fame of the man he had inspired. Drawing on Bingham's published and unpublished writings, as well as interviews with his family, Michael Jago skilfully tells the riveting yet poignant tale of the man who was George Smiley.

Absolute Friends

John le Carré
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Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

A Small Town in Germany

John le Carré
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Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101603048

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A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. "Haven't you realized that only appearances matter?" The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British factions are rising to power in Germany. Rioters are demanding reunification, and the last thing the Crown can afford is a scandal. Then Leo Harting—an embassy nobody—goes missing with a case full of confidential files. London sends Alan Turner to control the damage, but he soon realizes that neither side really wants Leo found—alive. Set against the threat of a German-Soviet alliance, John le Carré's A Small Town in Germany is a superb chronicle of Cold War paranoia and political compromise. With an introduction by the author.

Conversations with John Le Carré

John Le Carré
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Author : John Le Carré
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578066697

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Conversations with John Le Carré by John Le Carré Pdf

Collected interviews in which the acclaimed writer talks about his craft, the nature of language, the literature that he loves, and the ways in which his own life influences the creation of, and characters within, his novels

Memoirs of a British Agent

R. H. Bruce Lockhart
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Author : R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848326293

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Memoirs of a British Agent by R. H. Bruce Lockhart Pdf

When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Russia and as one man’s story of struggle, and tragedy set against the background of great events. Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. With revolution in the air, it was dangerous, decadent posting. The 'Boy Ambassador' became an eyewitness to pivotal events and in 1918 was charged with establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. It was a precarious mission: Whitehall could not be seen support revolutionaries; Lockhart grew wary of his masters’ secret machinations; while Lenin and Trotsky's cordial relations with the British agent never quite dispelled their mistrust of the nation he represented. When Lockhart met Moura Budberg, who became the great love of his life, he was in an increasingly vulnerable position. In September 1918 he would be falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and sent to the Loubianka. His account even inspired a Hollywood movie. From his evocative descriptions of revolutionary Moscow, where the champagne flowed as the bourgeoisie trembled, to his audiences with Trotsky and his brushes with death, this is a vivid, unique memoir.

Our Game

John le Carré
Our Game Book PDF

Author : John le Carré
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143183013

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Our Game by John le Carré Pdf

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, disappear, 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...